December 2006 Screwballs of the Month

[jpholding]

Remember that we'll be voting for Platinums in January. Doubting John has already won a Lifetime Achievement Platinum.

[jpholding]

Wow. Email right off the bat:

I recently read a portion on your site about lloyd grahams book. I began reading the bible when I was eight years old and I am forty now and still study it. Thing is the stuff Graham says makes sense to me. 12 disciples 12 zodiac signs. four gospels four seasons. The halo in the last supper picture representing the sun. When I was twenty I was so high on Jesus that I would never have read a book like that, or I would have said it was trash like you all are. I still learn some things from the bible, but some things in it are fairy tales, we learned a moral to the story in fairy tales remember?

[lilpixieofterror]

Here's a great one here from a debate I'm enganged in on yahoo:

I have heard Xtians on these boards claim that their religion is unique and does not borrow from other beliefs. Some have even been dishonest to the point they have tried to say other religions have borrowed from Xtianity.

So I ask, what is unique about Xtianity?

A: it has a demi-god for a hero, very Greek you might say.

B: Xtianity has the Eucharist, once again can be shown to come from older Greek cults
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C: Xtianity claims a virgin Birth; this is a very common theme.
1: The Greeks themselves tied into Virgin births of their Demi –Gods, Heracles being a known example
2: The much older virgin Birth comes from Egypt and is no other then Horus.

D: Many Xtians have attempted to claim the Trinity is a Xtian theme, of course once we study we find a much older Egyptian Trinity, between Horus, Isis and Osiris.

E: Many Xtians attempt to claim the resurrection is a Xtian theme, of course this also comes from Egyptian religions with the Osiris cult.

F: In Xtianity we have Jesus as the bride groom; once again this can be seen thousands of years earlier in the older Sumerian legends. City states had a Goddess and the Goddess would marry the King.

G: Even the Madonna scene is no other then Horus and Isis a much older Egyptian theme.

H: WE have the Son of Xtianity and the Sun of Mithraism Worship, Mithra also born of a virgin in a cave had three wise men attend him.
Mithra was worshipped on Sunday, the new day adopted for worship by Xtianity.

So could somebody please tell me what is so “original” about Xtianity.

Source

When I quoted and link some of your Christ myth series that seemed to upset alot of people:

Your sources, James Patrick Holding, is a former prison librarian without credentials in any area that relates to his arguments. I would cut him as quickly as possible. In any state college or university in the United States, he would not be allowed as a secondary source (scholarly source). The paper would be given an "F." Note also that you use no reputable sources in your counter argument.

Source

The funny thing is... this person goes on to say, "Thomas Paine is one of the first Americans to engage in critical thinking about the Bible atrocities." Didn't he just say I should only use reputable sources?

Crystal

[jpholding]

Note to self: Collective award to the whiners in the Nat Sci thread on my homology article, including and especially Barry Desborough and Soundsurfr, whose main argument has been, "But in your article on A, you didn't address arguments on B through Z."

[lilpixieofterror]

Note to self: Collective award to the whiners in the Nat Sci thread on my homology article, including and especially Barry Desborough and Soundsurfr, whose main argument has been, "But in your article on A, you didn't address arguments on B through Z."

Soundslikeahyprocrite has enough screwball awards to fill Texas 3 inches deep. As for Barry... I'm not sure... don't read his post much.

Crystal

[Doubting John]

Remember that we'll be voting for Platinums in January. Doubting John has already won a Lifetime Achievement Platinum.

You really can't get me out of your head can you?

Maybe we should just get it out of our systems and meet over a few beers.

Then you'll feel much better.

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By the way, I wrote this with you in mind: http://debunkingchristianity.blogspo...-problems.html

What d'ya think?



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[jpholding]

You really can't get me out of your head can you?

(checking watch)

Not bad. Beat your last record for getting here. Do you also roll over and fetch?

Maybe we should just get it out of our systems and meet over a few beers.

I don't drink anything that smells like what Franky did on the rug....thanks.

By the way, I wrote this with you in mind:

http://debunkingchristianity.blogspo...-problems.html

What d'ya think?

You have a mind?

None of it seems to have anything to do with the way I think. Too much beer last night?

[brother vinny]

I hereby nominate our own taoist for this gem:

I have no objection to faith based education which does not include indoctrinating children with scientific falsehoods or morally reprehensible doctrines likely to damage society as a whole.

Translation: "I have no objection for faith based education so long as it conforms to the tenets of my faith (or lack thereof)."

[Mountain Man]

By the way, I wrote this with you in mind: http://debunkingchristianity.blogspo...-problems.html

From the blog:

I don’t mean to suggest that there are no problems for the believer. He does indeed have problems. But he also has an explanation for them in that God allows him to experience them in order to strengthen his mind, character, and body, or that they are the punishment for sin.

If that's the kind of mindset you had as a Christian, it's no wonder you walked away from the faith.

Oh, and Johnny Boy certainly deserves special recognition for this gem in the same blog:

I watched the movie Troy (starring Brad Pitt as Achilles) just recently. I liked the movie a great deal even though it was long. It was very entertaining and loosely based on Homer’s The Iliad, along with Greek mythology. You ought to watch it! So long as it’s even close to how the ancients thought about the gods, it’s enlightening.

Instead of cracking a book about the ANE written by a credentialed expert, he watches a Brad Pitt movie.

[Dee Dee Warren]

That blog entry is a winner for sure. I loved this line:

Take for instance the problem of evil. If you believe in a Christian God concept, then God is your answer. God knows what he’s doing, and what he does is good, even though they have no answer as to why God didn’t explicitly condemn slavery, or create all human being with one color of skin.

So it is evil to have different skin colours? Bad Johnny. That is about as good as funk in your shoe. Booyah.

[Sevivon1913]

That blog entry is a winner for sure. I loved this line:



So it is evil to have different skin colours? Bad Johnny. That is about as good as funk in your shoe. Booyah.

Um..........who actually won November?

[Doubting John]

That blog entry is a winner for sure. I loved this line:
So it is evil to have different skin colours? Bad Johnny. That is about as good as funk in your shoe. Booyah.

Booyah yourself. D'ya miss me by the way? And...what if I like the funk in my shoe?

Just think of all the race based conflict and race based slavery that would never have existed if we were all one color of skin. But apparently your God wanted this, knew about it in advance, and created it anyway. Isn't that like throwing a bucket of chopped up fish in shark infested waters during a scuba dive? It sure seems similar to me.

[Doubting John]

(checking watch)

Not bad. Beat your last record for getting here. Do you also roll over and fetch?

You've taught me to check at the first of the month. I was just wondering if you still have DJ on the brain and I was proved right. When are you going to get over me...find another friend to jab at.

I don't drink anything that smells like what Franky did on the rug....thanks.

Yes you do, except it's the stuff that puffs you up so much. You're drunk on yourself.

You have a mind?

Nope. I have a brain. By the way, where is your mind? Is it located in your elbow, your heart, or in the gutter? If it's in your brain, then why is it there? Why does it stay there? Why doesn't it just float around every once in a while--oh wait, I'm sorry, your mind just came into my computer room....... *SWAT* I got it.

None of it seems to have anything to do with the way I think. Too much beer last night?

That's why I thought of you when I wrote it...because you haven't a clue.

[Doubting John]

From the blog:
Instead of cracking a book about the ANE written by a credentialed expert, he watches a Brad Pitt movie.

Here I go, but I don't know why.......

I've read the Iliad, MM. Why can't I watch the movie and comment on it? Have YOU read the Iliad? Would you read it if I recommended it? Or would a movie be easier for you to rent and watch and get the points I was trying to make? You tell me. But I liked the movie. It's really in the same vein as some of the great epic movies of the past. You ought to see it, if you haven't yet...not just for the lessons I mentioned, but because it's really a great movie!

[spl_cadet]

Abusus non tollit usum.