Archaeology of the New Testament

they're killing Gaza babies due to racism.

that's not high trust or Christianity.


its just fucking evil and you must be lost.
They're highly inbred Jew-hater muslims. Their family tree looks like a trunk, and they love Hitler. Fuck them.
They also ruined Lebanon and got kicked the fuck outta there, but I bet you don't know anything about that, huh?
 
They're highly inbred Jew-hater muslims. Their family tree looks like a trunk, and they love Hitler. Fuck them.
They also ruined Lebanon and got kicked the fuck outta there, but I bet you don't know anything about that, huh?
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Atheists believe in the biggest miracle of all.
So, not believing in your miracles is believing in the biggest miracle of all? Ask me how I know that you are an idiot.

That a mathematically rational, lawfully organized, finely tuned universe
Mindless raving. You are unable to learn, even when handed the correct answers. Ask me how I know that you are an idiot.

popped into existence out of nothing by pure chance.
Oh, so now you pretend to understand random processes, but insist that you have no clue when discussing a random dust cloud. Ask me how I know that you are an idiot.

Protestants specifically rejected the doctrine of transmutation.
So. Why is belief in that particular miracle / physics violation required?

Christianity as a whole does not boil down in essence to crackers.
Are you saying that Christianity, in part, boils down in essence to crackers? I've never heard that. I'm not sure that's a thing.

You are just selectivity complaining about the parts you don't like.
Wait, isn't that what you are doing essentially, i.e. compaining about others not accepting the parts you like?

Ritual practice and belief is a big part of all of our lives.
How is it a big part of my life?

Everytime you perform a toast at a wedding or blow out birthday candles you are participating in a ritual belief.
Did you just assert that participating in a ritual is participating in a ritual belief? Does that even make sense?

So we are in agreement that all Christians are not required to believe everything in the Bible is literally true.
You just want to selectively complain about the parts you don't like.

Frankly, I can't see how anyone could treat the entire Bible as literal historical biography and scientific reporting.
Frankly, you can't support any of the Bible as being historical.

That what makes you unexpectedly extremely similar to fundamentalist Pentecostals and Southern Baptists.
How does your raving differ in any substantive way?
 
Thank You OP for this very important thread (imo), and I hope that my comment is relatable given my loss of God in my Life's travels thus far...

Here goes, I suppose:

If anyone here can send me a link to any real historical, factual data of what really happened during the Roman's occupation of Judea @01 AD, this would be greatly appreciated by me, and therefor all Saffers....

...Just no sky-fairies, or magicians walking on water after they turned water into wine and thereafter raising dead folk pls...unless you can back that up.

Yours Faithfully

James
 
It's not about liking gods or the idea of gods. I'd love to know that I can exist eternally in the afterlife. There's just no reason to believe it's going to happen for anyone.
I didn't say anything about an afterlife, Christianity, or Islam. I asked if you thought if it's reasonable to believe the rational and the material can somehow spontaneously come from the irrational and immaterial.
atheism means not believing in gods. I don't believe in gods... any of them. My belief is independent of reality. I can believe x and y might be true. Since I'm not omniscient, I have to be willing to acknowledge that it's possible that a god(s) exist, but that is completely separate from my atheistic beliefs.
I'm not asking if you believe in anthropomorphic gods like Zeus or Odin. I asked if you thought if it's a great explanation to believe the rational and the material can somehow spontaneously come from the irrational and immaterial.
Black holes, deadly radiation, 99.999% of the universe doesn't support, and in fact actively ends, life.
So? Are you saying Earth is extremely rare and precious?
No, I don't. Like the "unexplainable" gravity, I'm fine saying "I don't know" rather than going all "God of the Gaps".

There are varying theories on what causes the "extra" gravity. Dark matter is one, but I'm not tempted to say "God is creating the extra gravity" because that would be ridiculous.
None of those explain gravity at it's most fundamental level. There are some questions science doesn't answer, and probably never will. That's the point I made. You are trapped in a paradigm thinking that science provides, or can provide, the answer to absolutely everything.
Well, then God must be doing it, right?
Mathematics implies a mind, a rational agency, or an underlying organizing principle. You still haven't convinced me that lawful organization and an underlying universal mathematical scaffolding somehow just appears from inanimate, irrational, material causes.
 
Thank You OP for this very important thread (imo), and I hope that my comment is relatable given my loss of God in my Life's travels thus far...

Here goes, I suppose:

If anyone here can send me a link to any real historical, factual data of what really happened during the Roman's occupation of Judea @01 AD, this would be greatly appreciated by me, and therefor all Saffers....

...Just no sky-fairies, or magicians walking on water after they turned water into wine and thereafter raising dead folk pls...unless you can back that up.

Yours Faithfully

James
luckily the point of religion is to create high trust thriving societies.

Jesus encapsulated that perfectly in his golden rule.

the golden rule is the proper take-away from Christianity.

any other takeaway is probably a Zionist malignancy.
 
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