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One of the worst things that ever happened to my Biblicism was learning Greek. For example, Matthew 2:1 μάγοι is “Wise men,” and μάγον is “sorcerer” in Acts 13:6. Same word, except for number. I already know all the apologetic excuses for the wide separation in translation. What’s the difference ...

@TheCrankyAtheist --You’re right about that. What swayed me away from evangelicalism was fervent Bible study, and learning apologetics. I think the “88 Reasons why the Rapture in 1988” and seriel killer Ted Bundy’s midnight conversion helped along. Probably the best thing to do to get religious f...

The 4-year-old’s preaching was shouting a string of disjointed, common Pentecostal Christian expressions he’s probably exposed to a lot—so poorly articulated, by the way, that Natgeo put up subtitles. There was no coherency to it, nothing that could be taken as a message, let alone a message from...

@jakethewhale Strobel was raised in a Christian home, and his wife pushed him back to the religion. I’ve not come upon a reliable story of anyone raised in a non-Christian home who embraced the religion after an objective reading of the entire Bible. I’ve not created impossible conditions—lots of...

@clip11 You’re inferring the standards I hold God to. However, I don’t imagine what you’re trying to say is that it’s ever morally OK to force women into marital or sexual relationships against their will. If it isn’t, then reason suggests that’s the standard God would hold us to at all times.

In my 10 years in evangelicalism, I came across many like me who completely embraced all its doctrines, including the resurrection, in emotional moments with no real research. I never came across a reliable story of anyone without a background in Christianity, or experiencing social pressure, obj...

This video assumes the Biblicists are settled on a single creation hypothosis, which they’re not. There are several Christian creationism models and most have have evolved over time. Generally, they’re lumped into Young Earth and Gap Theory Creationism. The various camps have excited chapter-and-...

@angelajaynemartin The Daodejing posits a distinct “theology,” although perhaps better called a daology, and explains an appropriate human response. Hence, it appears on ‘holy book’ lists. Laozi may not have existed, although I believe if we could backtrack history we’d find a person he’s based o...

@bubbyj The Age of Accountability, or provision for innocence, wasn’t originally considered a biblical doctrine. It was invented, and verses found to back it, because Christians realized how horrific the notion of infants going to hell was. However, three of the most influential theologians—St. A...

1.30-2.07. “Statistics show that sexual offenders more often than not are religious, and the more religious they are the more heinous their crimes are.” This, I believe, is people with serious maladjustments wanting to be 'fixed,’ so they turn to religion. When it fails to fix them, they try bein...

I loved all the inside jokes--ProfMTH "He's kinda hot." Aronra "Crocoduck." ROFLMAO.

:40 “Before I even read the Bible, I accepted Christ as my savior. Through getting to know him and spending time with his word, God’s gotten me (used?) to the Bible.”/Translation—Without doing any research, I believed in a body of religious doctrines. One of those doctrines is that the Bible is t...

My children owe me nothing. I’ve treated them with love and respect and they’ve returned it, for which I’m grateful. Parents who expect rewards from their children are mistaken.

@skatecubed Try convincing my children I’m a “bleeding heart.” They’d laugh, and laugh and laugh. I maintained control in my home—I just didn’t need to use condescension, megalomania or power displays. I gave respect, expected respect, and, on the whole, got respect. This fellow hasn't maintained...

Pretty good video. Being a panentheist, I completely understand that inflation (big bang), biological evolution, and what have you, are explanations of observable nature, not dismissals of God. However, as a former evangelical Christian, I get why they have to argue against the sciences.

@Newenlightenmentnow Ted Bundy's last-minute profession of faith was an early part of me questioning my way out of evangelicalism. I live in Florida, where it was really big news in churches. While others were celebrating his midnight salvation, I inwardly recoiled at the implications. I spent th...

“It is true the manuscripts we have are later…” As in after the prime councils that decided what would be orthodoxy, and after selection of 27 documents that made the final canonization cut. Not that settled orthodoxy could have affected transmission of the texts.

Can I envision a religion springing up from the Star Wars series? Yes, I can—they call themselves Taoists, they frequent Taoist discussion boards, but they have a view of Tao that seems based on George Lucas’ Force, not Lao Tzu’s Tao.

Maybe it's because I don't play video games, but this one left me scratching my head.

1:00, “But if I or anyone did a much more serious and through investigation, many more examples could be found.” … This is called confirmation bias. There are some people and places named in the Bible that we have extra-biblical evidence for—I don’t believe anyone has ever said otherwise. 8:00, “...

@sirhood8 That's the Arminian response. If we find a TULIP Calvinist, he or she would use the Bible to show you that you're wrong about those who wish to be saved can be. The Calvinist has irrefutable Bible texts on his side that show God in his sovereignty selected who would be saved and that's ...

@apostrophes100 Thanks for the clarification.

Oh, yeah, the old provide-evidence argument. That one was debunked by the boy in grade school who proved his cliam that he could run at the speed of light by refusing to demonstrate it.

I think the best definition of God I’ve heard was put forward by, if I remember right, Richard Dawkins, an atheist. I’ll paraphrase—God is an intelligent and aware entity or being with the ability to generate a universe, but is not itself the product of a creation or evolution. Any entity or bein...

I used to call myself feminist. When I discovered (quite painfully) that many who use the identification were, or are, quite biased against fathers, even feminist ones, I could no longer use the word for myself. Now, I call myself an equalitarian. I favor equal opportunity and consideration in al...

Wonderful video with great reason and argumentation, yet balanced with apparent empathy toward believers, too.

Well done series. Slavery in the Bible is glossed over by modern Christians. I find it amusing how they often cherry-pick history by modern, secular moral standards to dismiss generations of slave owners from their fold. “They weren’t true Christians.” If true, that means that the Southern Baptis...

@wordonfirevideo The movie is more anti-pagan. The pagans initiated murder. The Christians fed the poor, not pagans. Hypatia notes that the pagan religionists were always unkind. Christians were portrayed as a persecuted minority that gained status, and some of its leaders misused newfound power ...

Back in my evangelical days, 1980s to 1990s, the issue for my segment was getting government and commercial interests to let go of Christmas in favor of more generic “holidays,” so we could have our spiritual celebration of Christ's birth uncontaminated by secular culture. Now I see folks in that...