Part 2 - Dinesh D'Souza/ Dan Barker Debates

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Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, debates Dan Barker

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[soursourapples]

jesus never existed. the evidence proves it.

i would like to see dinesh debate an archaelogist and historian, he would dissolve.

[greyhall1]

So it wasn't Jesus' loving holy spirit spreading the truth to Goa India or to S. America or elsewhere the disease thrives. No, Christianity was spread by torture, imprisonment, threat, execution & force.

U would never have said in the 1350 that christianity is false. It would have meant U being tortured mercilessly by those jesus loving christians & then burned to death. This is how it was allowed to grow & spread.

Just another reason that christianity & religion is man-made bullshit.

[whauffend]

@planetsaver1 Those eighties shoulder pads keep slipping from his feeble shoulders/

[planetsaver1]

What's with the shoulder movements? Is DD possessed by the devil?

[ardendogma]

We must never forget what Christianity was like when it was strong. It has had to give up so much authority, so much power, so much territory -- in medieval ages, the Church governed your life and should you even think against their doctrines, systems from hideous torture to barbaric executions were put in place to keep you in line. Only through bravery and morality and free enquiry has Christianity been tethered and returned to its hypocritical teachings of non-violence and peace on earth.

[rlmcviii]

But the lower casts missed something when they observed that "No amount of merit" would advance them in life. For the Christian God thinks too that there is no amount of merit/good that a person may do to redeem themselves. And that in fact we are all worthless and dirty and worthy of only burning in hell forever except for the pity from a God who did not choose to prevent it in the first place. Religion isn't about good/merit it's about emotional manipulation and control.

[sushiboots]

Mr. D'Souza, just because your people were seeking an alternative from the corrupt system they resided in, doesn't make the system they converted to any more righteous.

[sushiboots]

Wow. So this guys justification for his people fleeing to the christians was because they were nice? Didn't he just say about 10 seconds earlier that they were bearing swords? Hmm? Think about it.

[writersblock26]

Thank you for posting this, tothesource1.

[YHWHisSovereign]

Dan claim that the level of confidence for the resurrection of Jesus is so low that it can be ignored. This is such an absurd claim that I would have to wonder if Dan ever studied the evidence.

[BassP86]

@ragna120k

(cont.)

The predating of Paganism before Christianity doesn't prove that Christianity copied Paganism. That's why your claim is post hoc ergo propter hoc. Anyways, watch those links that I've provided in my initial comment.