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Citizen Tom Concedes Jesus Did Not Say Anything New, Original, or Even Marginally Useful.
Name something new, original, or even genuinely useful Jesus said of did. It’s a stunningly simple question, and since banning me from his blog for asking this stunningly simple question, the evangelical Christian blogger Citizen Tom has penned four posts (some 6,000 words) trying to address the question, only to (predictably) concede that Jesus did not in … Continue reading
The Rather Simple Question No Christian Can Answer
There are many ways to litigate the general nonsense presented by religions, especially that species of religion expressed in the Abrahamic faiths. The most tempting is—naturally—in contesting the outlandish claims of supernaturalism, but what is the most tempting is not necessarily the most potent. Simple history—actual physical reality—is by far the best method to demonstrate … Continue reading
Christianity’s Nightmare Question
(A re-edited version of an older post) It’s one of the most overlooked questions in the Christian world, the stuff of nightmares for Sunday school teachers, Christian philosophers, and hungry amateur apologists across the planet: If Jesus was God, why didn’t he say anything new or even marginally useful? In the roughly 12,000 days this self-named … Continue reading
Why Won’t Christians Follow Jesus?
Why aren’t Christians Communists? Why aren’t Christians Communists like the apostles of Jesus Christ were? Here are the people who, allegedly, knew Jesus. They (allegedly) spoke with him, (allegedly) ate with him, (allegedly) travelled with him, (allegedly) asked him questions, and (allegedly) listened to the answers. These are the people who are best positioned to exemplify … Continue reading
A Christian Nation
We often hear talk of the US being a Christian Nation. This, of course, is an absurd statement. In no way was the US crafted as having a government whose institutions were based on any religious belief, let alone Christianity. The majority of the founders had, in fact, long dismissed Christianity, some like Franklin even … Continue reading
The Infallible Logic of Christianity
*I didn’t pen the original joke. Who did, I have no idea, but he or she deserves a round of applause. Continue reading
When Jews Bury Yahweh
Imagine for one second that the following statement was issued by a major Christian denomination: There is no such thing as divine intervention. The Bible was not inspired by God. The classical view of God is rejected. It’s presently unimaginable, yet these are all (word-for-word) confessions made by Jewish Reconstructionists in their 1986 “Platform on … Continue reading
Jesus’ Appalling Credibility Problem
According to the Lectric Law Library a credible witness is someone “competent and worthy of belief… an individual capable of knowing the thing thoroughly about which he testifies.” It’s a solid, all-weather definition, and if we are to entertain the claims made by Christians then there has been no greater witness in history than Jesus … Continue reading
