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RE: Stupid things religious people say
August 12, 2024 at 2:16 pm
So, they find it offensive, no problem, just stay home and don't watch it... problem solved.
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
August 12, 2024 at 2:42 pm
The Virgin Mary statue on tour in the US from Fatima has been seen blinking by some churchgoers. The statue also heals people and has been known to cry her ass off
From Fox 8 news
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
August 13, 2024 at 9:01 am
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This is how Christian author (and ex-homicide detective) J. Warner Wallace defends contradictions in the New Testament, like how many angels there were in Jesus's tomb on his blog:
Even though I accept and affirm the inerrancy of Scripture, inerrancy is not required of reliable eyewitnesses. In fact, I’ve never had a completely inerrant eyewitness in all my years as a homicide detective. In addition, I’ve never had a case where two witnesses have ever agreed completely on the details of the crime. Eyewitness reliability isn’t dependent upon perfection, but is instead established on the basis of a four part template I’ve described repeatedly…
How does this make sense: he admits that eyewitnesses are not reliable, not inerrant, but he affirms the inerrancy of Scripture that happens to be based on eyewitness testimony. How can Scripture, supposedly based on eyewitness testimony, be inerrant, but eyewitnesses be not inerrant (always to some degree)?
I guess it's what they call "Christian logic" where you pretend to be philosophizing but just put your desires as a conclusion.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
August 13, 2024 at 4:51 pm
(August 13, 2024 at 9:01 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: This is how Christian author (and ex-homicide detective) J. Warner Wallace defends contradictions in the New Testament, like how many angels there were in Jesus's tomb on his blog:
Even though I accept and affirm the inerrancy of Scripture, inerrancy is not required of reliable eyewitnesses. In fact, I’ve never had a completely inerrant eyewitness in all my years as a homicide detective. In addition, I’ve never had a case where two witnesses have ever agreed completely on the details of the crime. Eyewitness reliability isn’t dependent upon perfection, but is instead established on the basis of a four part template I’ve described repeatedly…
How does this make sense: he admits that eyewitnesses are not reliable, not inerrant, but he affirms the inerrancy of Scripture that happens to be based on eyewitness testimony. How can Scripture, supposedly based on eyewitness testimony, be inerrant, but eyewitnesses be not inerrant (always to some degree)?
I guess it's what they call "Christian logic" where you pretend to be philosophizing but just put your desires as a conclusion.
It's another false equivalence fallacy, since criminal prosecutions do not involve claims for unevidenced magic or the supernatural. If all claims carried the same burden of proof, then we'd lend the same credence to someone claiming they owned a pencil, as someone claiming they owned a unicorn.
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
August 16, 2024 at 12:42 am
Know the difference
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
August 16, 2024 at 12:20 pm
(August 13, 2024 at 4:51 pm)Sheldon Wrote: (August 13, 2024 at 9:01 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: This is how Christian author (and ex-homicide detective) J. Warner Wallace defends contradictions in the New Testament, like how many angels there were in Jesus's tomb on his blog:
Even though I accept and affirm the inerrancy of Scripture, inerrancy is not required of reliable eyewitnesses. In fact, I’ve never had a completely inerrant eyewitness in all my years as a homicide detective. In addition, I’ve never had a case where two witnesses have ever agreed completely on the details of the crime. Eyewitness reliability isn’t dependent upon perfection, but is instead established on the basis of a four part template I’ve described repeatedly…
How does this make sense: he admits that eyewitnesses are not reliable, not inerrant, but he affirms the inerrancy of Scripture that happens to be based on eyewitness testimony. How can Scripture, supposedly based on eyewitness testimony, be inerrant, but eyewitnesses be not inerrant (always to some degree)?
I guess it's what they call "Christian logic" where you pretend to be philosophizing but just put your desires as a conclusion.
It's another false equivalence fallacy, since criminal prosecutions do not involve claims for unevidenced magic or the supernatural. If all claims carried the same burden of proof, then we'd lend the same credence to someone claiming they owned a pencil, as someone claiming they owned a unicorn.
And you get to cross examine the witnesses!
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
August 18, 2024 at 10:44 am
Don't you just love when you get into a conversation with a religious person who says something so stupid that you just stand stupefied by stupidity?
Someone told me that God exists because nature is perfect. So I told him that nature wants 5 of his 7 kids dead, as well as him dead by the age of 50, and anything additional is due to science and technology. To which he replied that nature is cruel which makes it perfect.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
August 18, 2024 at 10:58 am
(August 18, 2024 at 10:44 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Don't you just love when you get into a conversation with a religious person who says something so stupid that you just stand stupefied by stupidity?
Someone told me that God exists because nature is perfect. So I told him that nature wants 5 of his 7 kids dead, as well as him dead by the age of 50, and anything additional is due to science and technology. To which he replied that nature is cruel which makes it perfect.
I was once arguing with a door to door god seller, he told me that if evolution was true my wooden front door would evolve legs and walk away... I was stunned, how can someone be so stupid and manage to get dressed in the morning?
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
August 18, 2024 at 4:16 pm
Religion makes people say and do dumb things.
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
August 19, 2024 at 7:58 pm
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Quote:I was once arguing with a door to door god seller, he told me that if evolution was true my wooden front door would evolve legs and walk away... I was stunned, how can someone be so stupid and manage to get dressed in the morning?
Damn, that's so stupid it is honestly funny!
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