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RE: Slam dunk - Jesus had no clue
September 6, 2023 at 12:11 pm
You'd think that woudl do it, but....
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RE: Slam dunk - Jesus had no clue
September 6, 2023 at 12:21 pm
People always loved reading fictional stories about the end of the world.
Bart Ehrman even credits these end-of-the-world "prophecies" to the popularity of gospels comparing them to some end-of-the-world bestseller book of the 1970s (when he was in college) that is now long forgotten for obvious reasons.
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: Slam dunk - Jesus had no clue
September 6, 2023 at 12:33 pm
Jesus, "Shit, my watch is broken! When was I supposed to return to Earth??"
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
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RE: Slam dunk - Jesus had no clue
September 6, 2023 at 12:54 pm
Sorry, the only thing that stuck was '
coming in the clouds'.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: Slam dunk - Jesus had no clue
September 7, 2023 at 7:37 am
It does seem to be a failed prophecy. Apologists use various techniques and methods to try and make it that it wasn't. The best contender, in my opinion, is preterism of some variety.
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RE: Slam dunk - Jesus had no clue
September 7, 2023 at 8:41 am
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That's as it maybe buy what you should fear is The Coming of The Great White Handkerchief, or tissues, does anyone still do handkerchiefs? Do deities still do handkerchiefs?
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
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RE: Slam dunk - Jesus had no clue
September 10, 2023 at 8:42 pm
I just love how everything is a "fairytale", until it has some "use" against the Faithful. Then it's
gospel & absolute truth!
Obviously, something is either lost in the various translations. Or there's a deeper meaning that
heathen drones wouldn't understand anyway.
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RE: Slam dunk - Jesus had no clue
September 10, 2023 at 9:26 pm
(September 10, 2023 at 8:42 pm)ronedee Wrote: I just love how everything is a "fairytale", until it has some "use" against the Faithful. Then it's
gospel & absolute truth!
Obviously, something is either lost in the various translations. Or there's a deeper meaning that
heathen drones wouldn't understand anyway.
Oh, please do explain it to us "heathen drones".
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