I came across an article the other day from Dr. Aaron Menikoff, a Christian pastor, who asks if the Bible is reliable for “the truth” about Jesus Christ. That’s a great question — one I answer negatively — so I was curious about his perspective. His two main arguments are:
We should believe the Bible because [...]
Derren Brown explains how he predicted the lottery (sound is off-sync but it’s the best I can find):
So, in conclusion, he says he used a “wisdom of the crowds” method where people guessed random numbers, then he averaged them together, to get the result. I think we all know that’s bullshit with random numerical systems. [...]
Most religion is a bunch of hocus pocus dressed up in silly clothing:
And don’t forget about Buddhism, Islam, and Mormonism:
Of course, there are exceptions. Modern evangelicalism is a rebellion to this, and is just hocus pocus without the silly clothing.
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Yesterday, while ridiculing those who believe a supernatural being sent a tornado to Minneapolis because of TEH GAYS!!!, PZ Myers said:
It seems, if you look at the conference schedule, that the liberal Lutherans were contemplating making some friendly statements about their gay congregants, so obviously this was an example of gentle smiting of sodomites.
Of course, [...]
It seems some landlubbers think they’ve seen them a mermaid in Israel:
An alleged mermaid, said to resemble a cross between a fish and a young girl, only appears at sunset. It performs a few tricks for onlookers before disappearing for the night.
One of the first people to see the mermaid, Shlomo Cohen, said, “I was [...]
A Nigerian humanist conference was invaded by religious fanatics, and a representative of the Center for Inquiry was attacked:
During a passive Nigerian conference meant to explore ways of combating the abuse, expulsion and murder of children wrongly accused of witchcraft, more than 150 members of the Christian witch-hunter Helen Ukpabio’s Liberty Gospel Church reportedly overpowered [...]
When it doesn’t rain for a while, whose fault is it? If you’re an atheist, it’s just natural cause and effect. If you’re a fundie Christian, it’s God or Satan or angels. And if you’re part of a village in Bihar, India, it’s the weather gods who need to be shamed into letting it rain. [...]
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