Month: March 2016
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The Destroyed Bible – On How to Reconstruct the Bible, part 1
This parsed essay will consider the various sources that we have for the Bible via a circumlocution whereby we will consider how we could reconstruct the Bible were it ever destroyed.1 The essay is parsed thusly: Part 1: Old Testament / Tanakh / Torah Part 2: New Testament Part 3: New Testament (concluded) and Early…
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Freedom of Atheist Expression at “Liverpool’s John Lennon airport prayer room”???
The Liverpool Daily Post reports “Atheist accused of leaving insulting religious images in Liverpool’s John Lennon airport prayer room” (March 3, 2010 AD) A MILITANT atheist left allegedly insulting religious images in an airport prayer room in honour of his “hero”. Harry Taylor is accused of placing a series of “grossly abusive and insulting” photographs…
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“Citizen Ethics in a Time of Crisis” and “A Darwinian basis for citizen ethics”
Roger Hicks wrote A Darwinian basis for citizen ethics which is a commentary on Citizen Ethics in a Time of Crisis published by The Guardian which takes the form of a “pamphlet with contributions by ‘prominent thinkers exploring key questions about ethics today.’” He did a great job of exampling the circular logic of attempting…
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Christopher Hitchens’ Homosexual Flings
I would relegate this to the who cares files except that it may shed light upon the fact that Christopher Hitchens is obsessed with sex, see Too Sexy for My Theology? On the New Atheist Obsession with Sex. He is particularly obsessed with any hint of sexual morality (except when he is yelling at priests…
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Bart Ehrman’s Millions and Millions of Variants, part 1 of 2
Considering that his book “Misquoting Jesus” explored the issue of variant readings in New Testament manuscripts it may be surprising to some that Bart Ehrman’s book itself contains millions and millions of variants. Following are some examples of the variants: On p. 13 reference is made to “Timothy LeHaye and Philip Jenkins” as the authors…
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Pandorum’s Pandora’s Box
I recently watched a pretty wild sci-fi/horror movie titled “Pandorum.” The premise is basically that we have blown up the Earth and all that is left of humanity is aboard a space ship on a long journey to an Earth-like/habitable planet—the basic atheist vision of the future, I suppose (whether we blow up the Earth…
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Bart Ehrman’s Problem, part 1
Hereinafter, we will consider occurrences at the Greer-Heard Forum of 2008 AD. The forum’s topic was the reliability of New Testament manuscripts as pointers to the original text. The lectures and discussions primarily featured Dan Wallace (Dallas Theological Seminary) and Bart Ehrman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) with contributions by Michael Holmes (Bethel…
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Tiger Woods and Atheist Umbrage?…I am Still Waiting
FYI: this was originally posted on March 15, 2010 AD on Atheism is Dead (one of True Freethinker’s predecessors) but did not get carried over when we did the original merge. God forbid that a Christian or a “Christian” commits an immoral act; atheists are all over it and come down on them harder than…
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DOGMATHEISM : The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s Annie Laurie Gaylor on the Solstice and God’s Un-Evidenced Non-Existence
Whilst sitting in for Bill O’Reilly, Laura Ingraham had occasion to interview The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s co-founder (along with Dan Barker) Annie Laurie Gaylor.1 The Freedom From Religion Foundation is an organization established in the USA which is a country that was premised upon the concept of freedom of religious expression. Let us glean…
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VIDEO: Bill Ayers on common core
CHRISTIANITY Christianity Apologetics Bible God – Theology Problem of Evil – Theodicy Jesus Nephilim – Giants Serpent Seed Satanic Serpent & Dragon Angels Cherubim & Seraphim Satan / Devil Demons Miracles Inspirational Unbelievers Compliment Christianity Da Vinci Code / Angels and Demons / Templars, etc. Gospel of Judas The Lost Tomb of Jesus ————- ATHEISM…