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It never ceases to amaze me how fundamentalist Christianity and fundamentalism atheism are almost completely interchangeable. Their beliefs are mostly identical, the only difference is that one group...

Neeson. His name is Liam Neeson.

The name's Jond... Bames Jond.
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Indeed, he should at least think aboot it, eh?

Mickiel's man-made theology is so manifestly contradictory that it is not even clear why he is trying to argue, since he is convinced that everybody is going to be saved against their will, even...

Brett Strong is an individual who has managed to carve out a literary career off of the back of his own inability to utilise critical reasoning.

I still maintain my hypothesis that Brett Strong is really just an automaton that runs on a diet of misinformation, and the tears of the informed.

From that same FB group:
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This is evidence that B Strong and bertatberts are the same person. You've never seen them in the same room together, after all.

Posting this here, because it is relevant:
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You can read B Strong's pamphlet and dismiss it as rubbish if you like, or you can dismiss it as rubbish without reading it to save time if you...

Sanity/anti-screwball award for this wonderful piece of satire:
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:lol:

Could Johann Gutenberg ever had envisioned the nightmare scenario where, one day, people like B Strong would be able to proliferate their abysmal work? Did William Tyndale burn at the stake for the...

The New Testament as narrated by James Earl Jones. That's right. Darth Vader is reading the Bible to me.

Join... or Catholicity will eat your soul.

I think the average height in the 1st century was about 5'0".

Ah, the irony.

This guy sounds like he has mild brain damage. He makes yo lunch seem modest, articulate, and intelligent. He is about on par with bertatberts level of stupidity, something which I had previously...

DD-MM-YYYY is the most widely used date format worldwide, regardless of whether it is the international standard or not. :shrug:

I am pretty sure there are breeds of dog smarter than these people. :no:

I laughed. Out loud.

I'd have already done it by now were I a mod in the Tektonics area. *hint* *hint*

Could you please stop de-railing the thread? It's making me want to chew my own face off. Cheers.

Same guy again, after I referenced the ancient near east:



The irony here is that he quoted a wikipedia article that explicitly states that the identity of the silver coins used is not known,...

It gets better worse:


When I provided actual quotations showing the different verses shared the same theme, his reply:
[quote]LMAO 'pots'?[/quotes]

Other pearls of 'wisdom' include:

Some guy over at the Unbelievable? FB page claimed Matthew was in error by attributing a quotation of Zachariah to Jeremiah. When I pointed out that Matthew was using a well-known rabbinical...

Someone over at the Unbelievable? FB page reminds me why I stopped reading comments there:




In response to my point that Socrates, Hillel, Shammai and Gamaliel the Elder didn't write anything...

Platinum Sanity Award to the Muslim Community of Bradford for rallying to save a local Synagogue from closure:
"Built in 1880, it has long been under threat of closure, but several Muslim...

Aliens.

mickiel is still spreading the same palpable falsehoods and still ignoring all the scriptural evidence that refutes his unbiblical views, I see.

"Well, I'm bigoted, narrow-minded, and stupid, so atheism sounds ideal for me," says a nearby cretin. "My only worry is that it won't also cater to all of my other neurological difficulties, whoops,...

I've just applied for another job, a senior library assistant with the West Sussex County Council. This one pays £17-£18k, although is slightly further afield.

I'll be honest, the later books co-written by Sanderson are just as good as those written by the main man himself.

Didn't get the job. :-(

I've read the entire series... apart from the last book. That's still on my 'to read' list.

I choose pistols at dawn. :smug:

Sometimes I wonder if Tassman has a British butler, judging on how often he gets served by Englishmen.

No, I'm suggesting Tassman has reached a state of hypothetical meta-Tassman. A Tassman singularity, if you will.

For those who don't know, the Stele of the Vultures relates a conflict between the Sumerian city states Umma and Lagash... in the 3rd Millenium BC.

And in reply to my blog post discussing the...

Indeed. Indicating that he, as with other 1st century Jews, Greeks, Romans, et al. were convinced that Christianity was true. This doesn't show that Christianity is true, of course, but an...

It's your bog-standard Jesus Mythicist 'Oh hey, look at me, my brain fell out!' routine. Exemplified quite remarkably well by none other than bertatberts in his 'There is no evidence for a biblical...

Which invalidate them as sources... how? :ahem:


This is simply outright false. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that indicates that anyone other than Jesus of Nazareth is in mind.

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From 1937 to 1980, out of 52 scholars reviewing the subject, 39 found portions of the passage to be authentic. Since 1980, 10 out of 13 books on the subject argue that the passage is partially...

The Bronze Age ended around 1200 BC in the Near East. Somebody is more than just a little off.

I like how (earlier) she bragged her husband was a body-builder and martial artist. Building his body into what? A couch potato whose body fat has fused into the upholstery? Judging from his posts...

It really depends on the arguments and methodology the scholar uses. If a scholar makes good arguments, and is sincere in their conclusion, then, whilst they might simply be mistaken, they are...

I'm one achievement away from earning every achievement for Call of Duty: Black Ops. On the Zombies map 'Moon,' when you turn the power on, three digging machines, called excavators, will randomly...

bertatberts makes Tanya Simmonds look like Socrates. :no:

I'm citing the scholarly consensus. However, the Aramaic version of Matthew was certainly written earlier than the Greek version we have now. Maybe you're thinking of the letters of Paul? Those are...

Not necessarily. Sources have to be interpreted via critical analysis in order to judge what they say about a certain person, event, or phenomenon. Collectively, these sources, when analysed and...

The only exception might be John's Gospel, but, other than that, pretty much. The Greek version of Matthew's Gospel, whilst typically held to have been penned between 60-70 AD was based on an older...