March 2009 Screwballs

[Manwë Súlimo]

Screwball nomination to some nutter from Paltalk named angeleyes_251. According to them... get this... Because I'm in Bible College, the devil's sucking money out of me.

With Hell's economy in the crapper, Satan has to buy groceries somehow.

[Spacefoetus]

Ahh, the things you find on blogs:

Check out this review of DJ's book:

http://hambydammit.wordpress.com/200...y-john-loftus/

The review itself isn't nominated- I've never read the book, so I can't comment, but overall it gives a generally positive view.

But not positive enough for John.

Look at the comments- they start to get nasty the further you go.

waring: expect some foul language from john.

Edit: Okay, go for it- give the author of the review a screwball too. He appears to be a Jesus mythicist.

[Kabane52]

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAmazingAtheist

Retarded Citizen of the Year, perhaps?

I had a debate with him over the resurrection of Jesus. He made a video, which I responded to. He responded to about a third of my arguments and declared that the rest weren't worth responding to. I replied to that video. He never replied. He declared that he had gotten "****ing bored" His fans continue to declare that I was somehow defeated even though he didn't reply.

[jpholding]

I'd love to know why FormerFundy is being referred to as the enemy of the Smurfs.

It was my invention, actually.

[LilPunkishOfTerror]

Ahh, the things you find on blogs:


(snip)

Edit: Okay, go for it- give the author of the review a screwball too. He appears to be a Jesus mythicist.

No, he specifically denies this. He calls himself a Jesus-irrelevantist.

As I’ve said often, I’m not a mythicist, and I don’t particularly care whether there was or was not a historical Jesus.

http://hambydammit.wordpress.com/?s=jesus+myth

I haven't read enough of the blog to decide whether he's splitting hairs, though.

[LilPunkishOfTerror]

It was my invention, actually.

What are you trying to say, that you're a Smurf?

[mig_killer2]

I had a debate with him over the resurrection of Jesus. He made a video, which I responded to. He responded to about a third of my arguments and declared that the rest weren't worth responding to. I replied to that video. He never replied. He declared that he had gotten "****ing bored" His fans continue to declare that I was somehow defeated even though he didn't reply.

in all seriousness Kabane, back then the two of us were not particularly well-read and danced around the issues to some extent.

although if there were a sort of "take-two" of a resurrection debate between the two of you, (or between us and him) it would be much more interesting and I think the victory for you would be much more decisive.

[LilPunkishOfTerror]

screwie for yolunch (again)

(responding to CodewordConduit)

You, dear Ms. are not REALLY an Agnostic are you? Why do you continue to attack me? I am trying to get feedback from Christians-- NOT YOU! You just give them more material to throw at me. Please stop! They do not need your help!

http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/sh...&postcount=928

[Kabane52]

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAmazingAtheist

Retarded Citizen of the Year, perhaps?

I had a debate with him over the resurrection of Jesus. He made a video, which I responded to. He responded to about a third of my arguments and declared that the rest weren't worth responding to. I replied to that video. He never replied. He declared that he had gotten "****ing bored" His fans continue to declare that I was somehow defeated even though he didn't reply.

[DoomRater]

Here's a good one for Gom Jabbar:
"I think you have problems reading - an appeal to authority is a logical fallacy. End. No matter how much your sheepish brain wants to think otherwise this is a fact. The same as there is no argument ("sadly" there are only fallacious arguments against this) against homosexuality that does not define someone as a homophobic."

And he wonders why no one takes him seriously in the Religion boards over at Sheezy.

[DoomRater]

More straight from Gom's mouth on why Ben Witherington III is not qualified to decide the historicity of the Gospel accounts:

http://www.sheezyart.com/comment/67966700/

This entire comment line is screwball worthy, honestly. Good for a bunch of laughs, and pretty much proof he wouldn't last five seconds here.

[lilpixieofterror]

Screwball nomination to some nutter from Paltalk named angeleyes_251. According to them... get this... Because I'm in Bible College, the devil's sucking money out of me.

I can imagine what he would of told me, being a science student.

[Pumbelo]

I had a debate with him over the resurrection of Jesus. He made a video, which I responded to. He responded to about a third of my arguments and declared that the rest weren't worth responding to. I replied to that video. He never replied. He declared that he had gotten "****ing bored" His fans continue to declare that I was somehow defeated even though he didn't reply.

He's still one of my favorite Atheists on YouTube, mainly because he's funny.

[seanD]

He's still one of my favorite Atheists on YouTube, mainly because he's funny.

The skit he did about his roommate keeping the bread in the refrigerator had me rofl. I bet he would have made a better comedian than a career atheist.

[jpholding]

Screwball to Steve Mason, scholar who authored a book on Josephus and the New Testament, and formerly someone I had a certain amount of respect for, but now joins the ranks of scholars like Hector Avalos and Robert Eisenman, after writing me to protest that passages like these in my article at http://www.tektonics.org/lp/lukeandjoe.html :

If this is so, then Mason's ideas that Luke "knew some highlights of Josephus' story but did not recall or was not concerned with the details" [208 - an unfalsifiable explanation that rather conveniently "saves the theory in spite of the facts" by saying that Luke obviously knew Josephus, because they are so similar, but begs off obvious indications that Luke did not know Josephus, by making Luke's knowledge or expression imperfect!] falls to the wayside.

..."misrepresent" him as having a "single-minded" desire to prove a point with no concern for the truth.

I told him to grow up, stop being paranoid, and act like he has a doctorate!




DJ wins too for playing the old "if you were born in Saudi Arabia" card AGAIN:

http://debunkingchristianity.blogspo...raised-in.html

Isn’t it obvious that in a Christian dominated culture children are taught to believe before they could ever come to their own conclusions through reason? And in such a dominant Christian culture isn’t it obvious that these children who are raised to believe receive certain benefits from the social relationships of the church they’re involved in that make faith comfortable for them? What best explains why the Amish children stay in the Amish fold if they never leave their particular small culture? What best explains the fact that many young people lose their faith when they get out of such a church environment by attending a University? And isn’t it obvious that if a child is told s/he should not doubt but have faith or else s/he will be eternally punished that this provides a very strong firewall against honest doubt? Child molesters tell their victims not to tell anyone or else they might be killed. Is that much different? And isn’t it obvious that this whole process is best described as brainwashing or mind control? What is it, if that doesn’t explain it? And isn’t it obvious that most of us could be persuaded or manipulated into thinking and doing what we normally would consider false or wrong? Doesn’t the malleability of human thinking alone call upon us all to be skeptics? I think so. If you disagree, why not?

The characteristics of a brainwashed person are 1) xenophobia, or the fear of outsiders, an us/them mentality (which includes the fear of reading what those who disagree write); 2) A high degree of emotionally attachment to a belief; 3) That a person highly prefers his/her beliefs are true. And, 4) wishful thinking, which clouds a person’s judgment. There are other factors.

Believers are blinded by their passions because they have been brainwashed by their culture. Our culturally inherited beliefs are what we use to “see” with. These inherited beliefs are much like our very eyes themselves, so it’s extremely difficult to examine that which we use to see with. We cannot easily pluck out our eyes to look at them since we use our eyes to see. But we must do this if we truly want to examine that which we were taught to believe. Again, it’s a simple fact that brainwashed people do not know they have been brainwashed!

The utmost hilarity is that no one fits those 4 characteristics better than DJ!