Mary's Ten Year Pregnancy

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Mary had a little lamb,
And was arrested for bestiality

Mary had a little sheep.
With the sheep she went to sleep.
The sheep turned out to be a ram.
Mary had a little lamb.

Boru

[T0 Th3 M4X]

Anything to avoid a discussion or answer the simplest of questions, huh?

Here, lemme show you how it goes.

"Why, yes..yes, I do think that's just as ridiculous as a thunderbolt tossing santa in the stratosphere"

-easy.

I get that you think that we're talking about something else, that it's Not That™, but..there, I wouldn't even bother to argue with you.  It would be futile.  I only seek to help you understand what other people see, and why they say what they have..because that obviously sailed right over your nugget by reference to your responses.  You don't have to agree, but it would probably help if you knew what it was you were disagreeing with, eh?

I don't have a problem with answering questions, but I don't just answer questions because someone asks. If I felt anything useful could be accomplished by answering questions about "magic books" and "thunderbolts", then I would've given you a considerate reply.  Regardless, I gave you my thoughts on what you said and asked.  If that offends you them I'm sorry, but I don't respond to things frivolously, especially when I try to have a serious conversation with someone.

If you want to have discussions about magic books, elves, tooth fairies, bigfoot, or anything of the like, I'm glad to respond, but I don't get too yippity over things like that, so expect a response accordingly.  Now if you want to discuss measurable theories, historical data, quantum physics, and similar things that require analysis and critical thinking, then that's more up my alley, and you'll probably find me more cooperative with answering thought provoking questions.

[The Grand Nudger]

I don't find you offensive, I find you silly, lol.

[Huggy Bear]

Xtians will lie like rugs to deny that there was a 10 year gap.

But the gap between Herod the Great and Quirinius cannot be explained away.

https://infidels.org/library/modern/rich...inius.html

The Date of the Nativity in Luke

Richard Carrier

Conclusion

Richard Carrier's a shill.

He wasn't interested in the historicity of Jesus untill athiest groups started giving him money, and according to his own blog he was desperate for money...

http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2008/...ctors.html

Now I need a job. Even at best there won't be any academic positions available until Fall (and more realistically I might not find a position until 2009), but we've been stuck in debt for several years now and I'd like to clear it sooner rather than later. Our monthly expenses would drop immensely if we did,and this would substantially improve our situation. My wife would be very happy. And so would I. So I have an audacious proposal. It probably won't happen, especially in this present economy. But as Jack Burton said when he took a futile shot at the psychic eye monster in Lo Pan's underground lair, "Well, you never know until you try!"

Here's my proposal. In the past, generous private benefactors, on their own initiative, have paid me substantially to research and write various online works (such as Why I Am Not a Christian and Was Christianity Too Improbable to Be False). Could there be anyone else out there willing to fund my work? I'd like to find several benefactors, like those who've approached me before, with similar resources and interests, who would love to pool together to pay me to undertake a serious project over the next four months. That project can be anything, whatever this group most wants to see me complete this year. I'm open to suggestions (from those who really do have a mind to fund a project). But I'll use the following as a prominent example.

[T0 Th3 M4X]

I don't find you offensive, I find you silly, lol.

Good enough. To each his (or her) own.

[The Valkyrie]

Mary had a little lamb,
And was arrested for bestiality

Mary had a little sheep.
With the sheep she went to sleep.
The sheep turned out to be a ram.
Mary had a little lamb.

Boru

Mary had a little lamb,
She also had a duck.
She put them on the mantelpiece
To see if they'd fall off

[Angrboda]

Xtians will lie like rugs to deny that there was a 10 year gap.

But the gap between Herod the Great and Quirinius cannot be explained away.

https://infidels.org/library/modern/rich...inius.html

Richard Carrier's a shill.

He wasn't interested in the historicity of Jesus untill athiest groups started giving him money, and according to his own blog he was desperate for money...

http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2008/...ctors.html

Now I need a job. Even at best there won't be any academic positions available until Fall (and more realistically I might not find a position until 2009), but we've been stuck in debt for several years now and I'd like to clear it sooner rather than later. Our monthly expenses would drop immensely if we did,and this would substantially improve our situation. My wife would be very happy. And so would I. So I have an audacious proposal. It probably won't happen, especially in this present economy. But as Jack Burton said when he took a futile shot at the psychic eye monster in Lo Pan's underground lair, "Well, you never know until you try!"

Here's my proposal. In the past, generous private benefactors, on their own initiative, have paid me substantially to research and write various online works (such as Why I Am Not a Christian and Was Christianity Too Improbable to Be False). Could there be anyone else out there willing to fund my work? I'd like to find several benefactors, like those who've approached me before, with similar resources and interests, who would love to pool together to pay me to undertake a serious project over the next four months. That project can be anything, whatever this group most wants to see me complete this year. I'm open to suggestions (from those who really do have a mind to fund a project). But I'll use the following as a prominent example.

Do you even logic? No one is interested in your ad hominem arguments, Huggy. Show where the arguments are wrong or shove off.

[Drich]

 Herod Antipas,

Neither Antipas nor Archelaus were kings of all of Judea. "King of Judea" is a reference to Herod the Great.

So you are arguing the reference material that says Antipas was KNOWN AS THE KING OF JUDEA?!?!

Fine reference material please.

I'm not much of a faith man myself. I need hard historical evidence to believe.. I'm not one to just believe just because you say so. So i need some sort of authoritative reference that topples the material that I posted that says Antipas Was Indeed KNOWN AS THE KING OF JUDEA.

Or can't you grasp the idea that the bible is right and you little B/S contradiction was created off the cuff from someone with basic insolary knowledge of the time he was speaking of. (Did know Herod had a son named the same as he and as with any king passed his kingdom to his son) It's clear you message wasn't research and ill prepared. verses a document who has stood the test of time/2000 years or so of scrutiny.. Don't you think such a major error would have been brought up before you plagiarized this 1940 objection?

[Minimalist]

But if your argument rests on you own interpretation of Greek,

No, my argument is that god is a figment of your imagination and that if your god was real he would not be limited to Koine Greek to make his point.

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Huggy, you dumb fuck, Carrier knows more history in his little toe than you know in your whole useless body.  And he knows your godboy jesus isn't "historical."  Sucks to be you but then that is your choice isn't it?

[Huggy Bear]

Richard Carrier's a shill.

He wasn't interested in the historicity of Jesus untill athiest groups started giving him money, and according to his own blog he was desperate for money...

http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2008/...ctors.html

Do you even logic?  No one is interested in your ad hominem arguments, Huggy.  Show where the arguments are wrong or shove off.

Do you bother to think before you speak? The majority of historians agree that Jesus existed, so why would I have to disprove a fringe theorist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus

Virtually all New Testament scholars and Near East historians, applying the standard criteria of historical investigation, find that the historicity of Jesus is effectively certain

While scholars have criticized Jesus scholarship for religious bias and lack of methodological soundness,[nb 8] with very few exceptions such critics generally do support the historicity of Jesus and reject the Christ myth theory that Jesus never existed.

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Huggy, you dumb fuck, Carrier knows more history in his little toe than you know in your whole useless body. And he knows your godboy jesus isn't "historical." Sucks to be you but then that is your choice isn't it?

Nah, he just found he could make a career out of finessing gullible atheists like yourself.