I wasn’t going to do another Gospel Disproof today, but I saw Ed Brayton’s post on how Worldnetdaily is now hawking “Tebow trash” (or as I prefer to call it, “Teboloney”), and it struck me that Tebow is a great Gospel Disproof. See, here’s the thing. Tim Tebow is obviously a big fan of Jesus. …
Monthly Archive: January 2012
Jan 12 2012
Gospel Disproof #29: Negotiable guilt
One sure sign of the Gospel’s human and imperfect origins is its morality, and specifically its notion of negotiable guilt. By negotiable I don’t mean “we can work out a deal,” I mean negotiable in the financial sense of a deferred payment that exists independently of the bearer and that can be transferred from one …
Jan 11 2012
An odd little myth
The “historical Jesus” post is still collecting comments, so I suppose there might still be enough interest to justify bringing up the topic again. I’m still not convinced that Jesus never existed, and I’ve thought of an example which seems to suggest to me that some preacher by that name probably did exist. It’s found …
Jan 10 2012
Gospel Disproof #28: Conditional salvation
The Christian Gospel has many flaws that betray its origins as a man-made scheme for manipulating people, and one of the more obvious examples is the idea of conditional salvation. People will work harder for something they might achieve than they will for something that’s either guaranteed or impossible, so psychologically it’s a clever tactic …
Jan 09 2012
Predictions
Back in late 2002, when it was beginning to become obvious that George W. Bush was going to send us into an invasion of Iraq, I made some (unpublished) predictions. The price of gas would spike, as it always does when there’s turmoil in the Middle East. The US would get bogged down in Iraq …
Jan 08 2012
Trusting in men
This week’s installment of my On Guard coverage is up. We’re talking about whether there was enough time between the first-century events and the first-century manuscripts for Christianity to have started out as a legend, so some of you might be interested.
Jan 07 2012
The new webcams
The Internet is a great equalizer, and a great way for communities to get together and share ideas and experiences. And in some countries, that’s seen as a bad thing. Iran is mounting new clampdowns on Internet expression, including rules that will impose layers of surveillance in the country’s popular Internet cafes, as Tehran’s political …
Jan 06 2012
Gospel Disproof #27: The disturbed (and disturbing) lover
I want to talk to the moms and dads out there for a moment, especially those parents who have an unmarried daughter in her late teens. Suppose she comes home one day and says, “Mom, Dad, I need to talk about my boyfriend problems.” There are two guys competing for her affections. One is just …
Jan 05 2012
A prescription for gullibility
We’re approaching the point of beating a dead horse with this miracles discussion, but I do have one last point to cover before we move on. Jayman’s primary complaint is this: Based on multiple surveys and polls, Keener notes that hundreds of millions of people alive today claim that they have witnessed or experienced miraculous …
Jan 04 2012
News from Iowa
Just stopped by the local groceries for some sandwich fixings, and the headline on the local paper reads: Santorum, Romney On Top Santorum, and Romney on top. It’s going to take me all damn day to get that mental picture out of my head.
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