April 2007 Screwballs of the Month

[lilpixieofterror]

This comes from stevec's latest post:

I bet you believed in Santa Claus once, too. And the Easter Bunny. And the pixie in your picture indicates that you probably believed in the tooth fairy, so when these are proven to be a myth, you are forced to stick with the one thing you need desperately to hang onto, "God". Pity, must have been earth shattering for you to find out the truth.

So I guess sparko is now a ram because he has a picture of a ram on his profile? I love how this guy reasons.

From sev:

Of course the early Church didn't have women "leaders". A helper who reads out the liturgy for the Mass is not a leader. St Mary Magdeline was an apostle, not a leader. The Church leadership was male; Apostolic Succession was male; St Peter the first Bishop of Rome (and Pontificus Maximus) passed down his authority to a long line of male Bishops up until the present incumbent: Benedict XVI. Name just one female successor to the leadership of the Church.

http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/sh...5&postcount=55

Wow, so even if Mary Magdeline was an apostle, she wasn't a leader! Can anyone figure that one out?

I'll bring more latter, bye!

[Cynic Sage]

"Go to Church and you could win A FREE CAR!":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxnZYhJ-Cg

[Meta Knight]

Jim Eisele for this comment:

What is Christianity without truth? This is the question that I concern myself with. The political reality of it. Because Christianity has surrendered truth to the atheists. These types of posts are evidence of the truth bankruptcy of Christianity.

I have personal sympathy for you. But, at the same time, I wonder if you realize how silly you seem. Talking about this resurrection and stuff. A “resurrection at the end” is a big thing to swallow. Christianity is an enormous thing to swallow. Being a Christian for convenience is one thing. But it has been refuted. On the internet. Where everyone can see.

At any rate, as posts like this show, you don’t even get the supposed benefits of Christianity until you die. What kind of god is this ?!? Essentially, you have assigned a cruel character to your god. Which makes me nervous about the type of person YOU are.

http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/sh...&postcount=118

[Cynic Sage]

Mrs Debbie of the t4c forums:

http://www.teens-4-christ.org/board/...0&#entry100760

Keep in mind that Baptists are NOT Protestants. We never "protested" and "reformed" like the other religions and denominations. We have been in existense since Jesus established us during His earthly ministry. All other groupd are man-made.

[lilpixieofterror]

Mrs Debbie of the t4c forums:

http://www.teens-4-christ.org/board/...0&#entry100760

That's funny.. guess she never heard of the anabaptist... oh well...

[Cynic Sage]

The True Christian's Unite forum-website should get a nomination in the "I Honestly Hope that this is a parody" department:

http://p203.ezboard.com/True-Christians-Unite/btruechristiansunite

Especially for their subforum here:

http://p203.ezboard.com/Canada-Franc...iansunitefrm31

As the Canadianists are emboldened by their French allies, their saber rattling grows louder and we can ill afford to continue to brush them off as quaint maple syrup producers who end declarative sentences with rising inflections. They have brought Paris's agenda to our very doorstep!

As a Canuck myself, I would have to say that the only sabre's we have to rattle are the cheap, used ones that are always falling apart that we bought from the British.

I'm betting it's a parody, but even if it is, it desrves a mention cuz it's so darn funny.

"Blame Canada! Blame Canada!..."

[JB]

"quaint maple syrup producers who end declarative sentences with rising inflections"

I have a feeling it's a parody likewise, but parody or not, I'm just glad you shared it.

[jpholding]

Email from the Yeah Right PC Department:

I would like to express disappointment with your site. Specifically, this page: http://www.tektonics.org/af/ebon01.html

I am an atheist and one who has read Ebon Musings extensively. I very much enjoy his site, but I also am a truth seeker and so I searched for apologist rebuttals to his writings. Hence, I found your site. My disappointment is this: You seem very knowledgeable on the subjects that you write about, however you also seem very arrogant and haughty. I found this to be a huge turnoff because I find it hard to take seriously somebody who's ego conflicts with their rationality. For example, in the third paragraph you say: "For one thing, Ebon seems in a rush to endorse as many disrespectable positions as he can in as little space as possible." Not only is that an obvious untruth, but it adds nothing of value to the conversation. I write to you not to disrespect you, but to encourage you to think about the way you respond to critics. Your arrogance certainly doesn't help to convince non-Christians and only re-enforces the commonly held atheistic viewpoint that Christians think they are better than everybody else!

Keeping in mind that this is the Ebon who goes as far as endorsing such ideas as that Mithra was crucified and says "the Bible just isn't well written."

[Darth Executor]

and only re-enforces the commonly held atheistic viewpoint that Christians think they are better than everybody else!

You mean we're not?

[Menachem]

I nominate everyone posting in this section for screwball of the month. Oh and JP I am still awaiting your "removal or revision" of your Michah 5:2 article on your website. I will then accept your "chicken challenge" and refute it again.

[lilpixieofterror]

I nominate everyone posting in this section for screwball of the month. Oh and JP I am still awaiting your "removal or revision" of your Michah 5:2 article on your website. I will then accept your "chicken challenge" and refute it again.

I get a screwball award eh? Do you get one too since you just posted in here? BTW, have you looked for a cure for your JPHOCD?

Crystal

[jpholding]

I nominate everyone posting in this section for screwball of the month. Oh and JP I am still awaiting your "removal or revision" of your Michah 5:2 article on your website.

I did it last December 5, you dwit. Why don't you pay attention?

Looks like you win the Screwball for being oblivious.



I also award one to this website:

http://www.thedisciplewhomjesusloved.com/

The author, who has also written me email, rejects external testimony about the authorship of John because it is outside the Bible, but uses extrabiblical deduction and speculation of his own (including failing to understand the honor-shame dialectic that renders his most important arguments moot). Sample email from him:

[quote]Any Christian that I know would claim that the word of God is "prime evidence" and that non-Bible writings are not able to overcome the facts reported in the Biblical record, so your willingness to reject the Biblical evidence and look to the selected opinions of some writers that can be found written in some second and third century non-Bible documents is quite surprising. But then again pointing outside of the Bible is the only course of action for those who seek to defend this unbiblical man-made traditon because the Biblical evidence makes void this tradition of men.

While I do reject any non-Bible source that contradicts the plain evidence of scripture and make no apology for doing so, those who want to sell the idea that their favorite non-Bible source is just as important make a habit of changing the subject because they have no Biblical evidence to support their claims. So you can feel free to quietly withdraw from contention on the subject because you clearly do not place paramount interest in what the Bible has to say on this.
['quote]

This is the kind that makes for the worst kind of atheist when cognitive dissonance strikes.

[jpholding]

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

Doubting John's useful idiot dagoodS wins Gold for this skein of ignorance, which includes such schoolboy mistakes as not knowing that the reason the Sanhedrin could not stone Jesus was because Rome held capital power...and then stupidly taking "mob violence" attempts to stone Jesus (John 8, 10) and others as some sort of evidence against this.

[Leroy]

"For one thing, Ebon seems in a rush to endorse as many disrespectable positions as he can in as little space as possible."

That's his best example of arrogance?

[Cynic Sage]

Another Mrs Debbie moment:

http://www.teens-4-christ.org/board/...showtopic=3888

(from a handout in a Baptist college class)

Most people think of Baptists as being Protestant. Catholics feel they have a "superior" religion in that they date their origin to the Apostle Peter, and insist that all other mainline denominations are "rebels" or "wayward children" of the "Mother Church." This is, of course, comtrary to Scripture and history. Where did "Baptists" come from? (What is a Baptist?) Was Jesus a Baptist? Who was the first Baptist?

A Baptist is one who holds to Baptist Distinctives. Someone who believes and practices these distinctives is Baptistic, though he may be a member of another denomination. Jesus, John, and the other disciples were not called Baptists, but they were Baptistic. They were called "Christians" and believed as we do regarding the Distinctives.

There have been various names for Baptistic people through the years, though John was the 1st to be labeled "Baptist" and the term did not resurface until around 380AD.

Other Names for Baptists in History

Mk. 3:16-18

AD 30 - Jesus organizes His church
"Christians"..."Irregular churches" for the 1st 200 years

AD 200 - Montanists
Novations
Paterins

AD 300 - Puritans
Donatists (until 800)
Ana-Baptists (until 1400)

AD 600 - Paulicans

AD 1100 - Arnoldists
Albigenes
Henricians

AD 1200 - Waldenases

AD 1400 - Baptists

When Did Other Churches Begin?

AD 200-300 - Catholic (313 Hierarchy established)
Popery began in 440 with Leo II

AD 869 - Greek Orthodox & Roman Catholic split

AD 1530 - Lutheran Church
1531 - Church of England
1541 - Presbyterian
1560 - Reformed
1602 - Congregational
1785 - Methodist
1812 - Disciples of Christ

All were movements that pulled away from the Catholics.

Baptists never left the Catholic church; we were never part of it; we existed before it did.


Who started the church?

Lutheran - Martin Luther
Reformed - John Calvin
Presbyterian - John Knox
Methodist - John Wesley
Baptist - Jesus Christ

Where was the church started?

Lutheran - Germany
Reformed - Switzerland, Netherlands
Presbyterian - Scotland
Episcopalians - England
Baptist - Palestine

What do they believe (creeds)?

All Protestant - Augsburg Confession, Canons of Dort, Westminister Confession
Baptist - Word of God


Are YOU a Baptist?