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Time’s up
Well, the prophecy didn’t come true, after all.
The deadline has passed and not a single deity deigned to deliver the promised proof of divine existence. So what happens now?
A personal prophecy part 2
Maybe I really am about to receive a personal revelation from God. That would be very interesting.
Well now… this is getting interesting. Only a few days to go and I’m beginning to think something might actually be about to happen!
What Christian growth?
Sit down and do the maths. it seems that 1st century Christianity was nowhere near as persuasive as your pastor might claim
There’s nothing terribly impressive about the growth of Christianity during the first century. Just do the maths!
Is this prophecy?
A personal revelation of God? Really? For me? OK, bring it on!
A colleague told me that God will reveal Himself to me before 5pm on Friday June 28th!
A transparent trans-parent
I’m so tired of uninformed, unfeeling and above all uncaring Christians having a go at Trans people.
I’m so tired of uninformed, unfeeling and above all uncaring Christians having a go at Trans people. It’s what Christianity always does – they can’t demonstrate the reality of the deity they claim to believe in; they can’t make any reasonable arguments for its existence and they can’t persuade anyone of its truth without resorting to lies, distortions and ad hominem attacks.
It used to be ‘fornicators’ they attacked until people started being more open about their sex lives. It used to be gay men and latterly women until reasonable people realised that other peoples’ sex lives are none of their business. It used to be those who need an abortion until, apart from in the states, people began to accept that wider social and economic issues take precedence and now it’s trans people.
The church always needs someone to hate – a visible but not too strong minority to be the bogeyman. Unfortunately for Christians though the world moves on – secular morality develops and outgrows the nonsense of Christianity as the church hops desperately from target to target trying to keep up.
The source of Christian morality: It’s not what you might think
Church won’t excuse your bigotry,
You’re only there ’cause you agree!
Church won’t excuse your bigotry. You’re only there ’cause you agree!
Isaiah 7:14, the one about the virgin giving birth to a bloke called Immanuel that you hear about at every kids nativity play has absolutely nothing to do with Jesus. That’s a mistranslation, a mistake made by whoever wrote the gospel of Matthew.
He was a Greek speaker who couldn’t read the original Hebrew and so relied on a more ambiguous word from the Greek translation of the Old Testament. Unfortunately he made the wrong choice and wrote ‘Almah’, meaning ‘virgin’ instead of ‘young woman’. Not only that – the entire story is about events that happened in Isaiah’s time, over 700 years before the nativity story is supposed to have taken place..
Anyone who reads more of Isaiah chapter 7 than just verse 14 will quickly see that. It’s not hard to understand. There’s not really much room for ‘interpretation’ with this one. So if your pastor is telling you it’s a prophecy about the Messiah – ask him3 why he’s lying – or, more charitably, why he doesn’t know this himself. Has he never read the Bible?
The burden of proof
I would say my diary demands faith in place of inquiry
“… And if I said God wrote my diary
I’d anticipate inquiry…”
Christian hypocrisy
You cherry-pick your Holy book,
Ignore the homeless beggar as you look
The other way
Complaining every day
About the taxes that you have to pay.
When you have to lie to make your point, your point isn’t worth making!
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