January 2009 Screwballs

[Teluog]

DJ wins

He's got that fundy DJ mentality. Only he's an atheist.

[lilpixieofterror]

You did read in the comments to that post about African and Asian witch hunts, didn't you?

Hmmmm, that's not good at all.

Yep, because everybody knows that the vast majority of Christian history has been about witch hunts. So how much longer till you flounce off again just to come back a few weeks or months latter?

[{Tim}]

Hopefully this hasn't been posted before -- John Powell says ancient people were not intelligent enough to grasp the concept of "integral days":

Mountain Man:
If a news report says, "Rescuers found the survivors after a three-day search," it is commonly understood that the survivors were found sometime on the third day after the search had started. This is apparently obvious to everybody but you.

POWELL:
Those days are referring to 24 hour days without regard to daylight or whatever. To use 24 hours to refer to days helps to avoid confusion when their readers don't know how to count integral days. The ancients weren't smart enough yet to do that. We learned from their challenges.

[VenomX]

Has this site been nominated before?

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/

[One Bad Pig]

Has this site been nominated before?

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/

Yep.

[jpholding]

Email:

Greetings,

Hello Robert Turkle. I see your ministry is still up and running. Excellent work. Your site has become more populous, less scholarly, over the last decade. You have a talent for rhetoric and an ability to effectively persuade a certain subset of the population. I think you could argue a secular perspective just as well, or nearly as well, as a Christian perspective. Do you? As long as you argue better than your opponent, it doesn't who is correct. We could do an exercize where I argue Christianity and you argue atheism. Is that something you're interested in doing?



Much of your content --your life's work?-- has become slightly antiquated, but you gotta go where the money is, and most people who proselytize really aren't able to grasp the subtleties of Raymond Brown or John Crossan. When you talk to people outside of your religious circle and tell them your vocation is Apologist, do you feel a slight tinge of ignominy? You have a masters in library science, right? You used to work in a prison, so you have some verifiable work experience. Unless you messed that up, somehow? That could explain why you aren't being a librarian anymore? Get a job. Have you seen this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8kedcixfMM

I don't even know what to say.

I invited him here. Congrats to Kabane for irritating the oaf!

[jpholding]

You did read in the comments to that post about African and Asian witch hunts, didn't you?

Hmmmm, that's not good at all.

Yes, the skeptic Thomas Hobbes should definitely have known better.

Josef Stalin and Chairman Mao are far better role models.

[MarcusAndreas]

Standard Skeptic Argument Against the Existence of Jesus:
1. bObb tuRKel lolz
2. Therefore, Christ is a myth.

[Mountain Man]

Well, now I know who Darren is, don't I?

And now you know how wildly wrong you've been all this time.

But then, nobody ever accused you of being the sharpest tack in the drawer.

[T-Shirt Ninja]

You did read in the comments to that post about African and Asian witch hunts, didn't you?

Hmmmm, that's not good at all.

I looked at link you put in the comments.

So, a couple of Christian nuts out of literally millions of harmless Christians in those countries spoils the entire picture?

Where you ultimately fail is to show that this is the normal pattern for Christianity. Wherever just about any religion or ideological system grows (including atheism), it's not surprising to have a few nutcases go off and kill people in areas where they can get away with it.

[Manwë Súlimo]

Standard Skeptic Argument Against the Existence of Jesus:
1. bObb tuRKel lolz
2. Therefore, Christ is a myth.

This syllogism fails. You failed to properly capitalize the first proof.

[jpholding]

Last emailer sends me these two messages:

I just roasted a bowl of Orange Kush.




You are a misanthrope. I'm so wasted I see two of everything.

Light, cheap entertainment, yeah?

[Anon]

What's even funnier is that I know from "those" days how hard that guy probably laughed at himself while writing that, and how long it probably took him to send it.

[Rational Gaze]

Why are "sceptics" so obsessed with JP's name formerly being Bob Turkel? You'd think they've uncovered some kind of government conspiracy plot the way they keep harping on about it.

Standard Skeptic Argument Against the Existence of Jesus:
1. bObb tuRKel lolz
2. Therefore, Christ is a myth.

Actually, its more like: -

1. gEEzuS DUZn't xIST CuZ tEh InTARweBs tUld mE So
2. bObb tuRKel lolz, tHaRE4 JP holeding Is A LiErr
3. xStiANity RefUted

This is suprisingly similar to what one Atheist said to me once. One guy who reckoned he had an MA in Philosophy and had "spent 10 years studying Jewish culture and history" yet still believed Judaism and Christianity were rip offs of Zoroastrianism and Mithraism.

[jpholding]

This is suprisingly similar to what one Atheist said to me once. One guy who reckoned he had an MA in Philosophy and had "spent 10 years studying Jewish culture and history"

What he means is, he ate lunch at least once a week down at the Matzoh Ball Deli during that time period.