Vote for Diamond Screwball Winner of 2011

[jpholding]

OK, now that we're done with the political protests around here, it's time to pick the Diamond from the Platinum.

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Bertaberts

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Christian E-Mail

God's inspired words NEVER lie in the least, as you say it does in Luke 14:26.
No wonder God says that MANY are called but FEW are chosen.
I believe God means every thing He says in the way He says it and not the way your LIARS say it in ANY WAY.
God is not 'OUT OF CONTEXT' and He is not to STUPID so that He can not tell us what He really means by the way He says it. If you are a parent, I know exactly why God said to 'HATE' you in Luke 14:26.
You probably belong to one of the 15,000 RELIGIONS on earth that thinks theirs is right but the others are wrong and Christ NEVER COMMANDED ANYONE to start a Christian RELIGION of ANY KIND. Never did, NEVER WILL. (Matthew 15:7-9) You worship Him in VAIN.
You nor ANYONE on earth can show me a single verse where Christ complimented ANY RELIGION, RELIGIOUS LEADERS, CRAFTED TEMPLES, the DEVIL or Christ's biological mother. PROVE ME WRONG. I do not need your phony interpretation, I want a verse and not your EXCUSES.

John Loftus

Loftus started a self-serving poll asking of anyone wanted to see him debate William Lane Craig. The answers he allowed for votes:

Yes, to see a student debate his former professor

Yes, in order for John to be introduced to Craig's fan base

Yes, I enjoy debates

No, I don't care for debates

No, I wouldn't want to watch John get trashed because I care for him whereas I don't care
about the other atheists who got trashed by Craig

No, Craig should not introduce John to his fan base even though he has no qualms about doing this with other atheist debaters

No, although John has 3 master's degrees, Ph.D. work, considered by many to be "a leading atheist spokesperson" with some critically acclaimed books, he's not qualified

No, John needs more debate experience even though he has had, and arguably won, more debates than most atheists before debating Craig

No, my views are not represented by either side in this debate



Richard Dawkins, for refusing to debate William Lane Craig.


GodKillerAtheist (responding to my query on what he thinks the Hebrew word in Leviticus meant re bats/birds)

You paint a false representation that the bible is an ancient book. The problem is that it's been updated thousands of times. It's even been updated this year. The Hebrew version was updated in 1977 Why didn't they repair this error? Fact is they didn't want to

Joe Hardy (re Geisler-Licona debate)

Should we permit an atheist to join ETS (Evangelical Theological Society) if he says he believes the Bible is Inerrant, believes in the deity of Christ, and believes in the Trinity?

Tassman wins TWeb Veteran.


This wins Atheist Email:

How can you dare to preach to us atheists when even many christians disagree with you? For example you misleadingly make out that beleving Jesus did not exist is something only atheists believe whilst keeping very quite about the fact that even some christians doubt Jesus ever existed. For example this article (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14417362) interviews a church priest who points out that Jesus is as likley to have existed as dionysus! Maybe if you have evidence that jesus existed you should share it with the guy. Or take your claim that Christianity wasnt ripped off from mithraism. Well Rob Bell (who I understand has a much bigger following than you do) recons that these similarities between Jesus and Mithras do exist (http://youtu.be/7KvJc2VUFHY about 1:50 in) I guess your going to say that vicars of large churches arent true christians whilst you are (despite the fact that your youtube videos only get a few hundred hits suggesting that everyone bar 300 people recognise you for the joke that you are).

You will always get fundamentalists like yourself who deny evolution, believe jesus existed and that mithraism didnt exist however until you can convice other christians can you please not try on people like me.



This wins Skeptical Website:

http://ladyatheist.blogspot.com/2011...nst-bible.html

Harold Camping wins the Famous Christian category

[One Bad Pig]

I need a dartboard, or something.

[Benson Shays]

Loftus has to get it. I've never seen one person engage in so much blatant self-promotion before.

[One Bad Pig]

Loftus has to get it. I've never seen one person engage in so much blatant self-promotion before.

He doesn't need the ego boost.

[Raphael]

I went for Harold Camping.

None of the others achieved the international notoriety that he did, none of the others did as much negative PR for Christianity as he did.

And to top it off with their "oops, we'll run the calcs again" attitude, with no apologies to those who bought into their falsehoods.

None of the others even came close.

[fm93]

bert's stupidity literally scares me. He deserves Diamond for that, because as bad as people like YourMaster and Tassman are, I've never been SCARED by their level of stupidity.

[Benson Shays]

He doesn't need the ego boost.

This is one print-out credential he should be allowed to take credit for: "Skeptic informed Christians laugh hardest at."

[Andius]

bert's stupidity literally scares me. He deserves Diamond for that, because as bad as people like YourMaster and Tassman are, I've never been SCARED by their level of stupidity.

Why would his amount of stupid warrant fear? (Aside from the fear that he might accidentally get someone killed with his idiocy).

[fm93]

Why would his amount of stupid warrant fear? (Aside from the fear that he might accidentally get someone killed with his idiocy).

What's frightening is discovering just how immense human stupidity can be. It has completely shattered my faith in the human race.

[Raphael]

What's frightening is discovering just how immense human stupidity can be. It has completely shattered my faith in the human race.

But at best Bertie is a danger to himself. As is Amnouy.
GKA and Hardy, have relatively small audiences. Dawkins has a far larger audience, but I think his own vitriol limits his danger. Camping however managed to convince a large chunk of the world that Dawkins may be onto something with saying that God is delusional

[fm93]

Camping however managed to convince a large chunk of the world that Dawkins may be onto something with saying that God is delusional

That's news to me. I just saw that a large chunk of the world became convinced that Camping was delusional. I didn't see anyone become convinced that the likes of Dawkins were correct.

[Raphael]

That's news to me. I just saw that a large chunk of the world became convinced that Camping was delusional. I didn't see anyone become convinced that the likes of Dawkins were correct.

I know a number of folk who have used him as evidence that Christians must all be nutters.

[GK Kirbyton]

Interesting, no Geisler? Is there a stupidity-requirement to be a screwball, because even though Geisler is marginally intelligent, his whining and complaining fully deserves a diamond screwball.

[jpholding]

Interesting, no Geisler? Is there a stupidity-requirement to be a screwball, because even though Geisler is marginally intelligent, his whining and complaining fully deserves a diamond screwball.

Geisler would have been there if not for Camping. Bad as Geisler is, he reaches very few people, and has at least done some good in the past (tainted as it may be).

[Benson Shays]

With all due respect, Loftus must receive this failure award. Guess what his newest blog entry is? Yeah, "buy my book." Four years later, same rhetoric. Head. Bang. On. Desk.