Saturday, November 13, 2010

The Stupid! It Burns! (willfully stupid edition)

the stupid! it burns! How not to do atheism:
The lesser kind of atheist writers have been trying for some centuries to compile lists of “bible difficulties”. They would like us to believe that, if they can find or invent anything which looks like a contradiction, by whatever combination of ingenuity or wilful stupidity, in a library of books written over a period of several centuries and copied by hand — especially a numerical difference, and we all know how reliable is the copying of numerals in ancient texts –, then that proves … well, what? They get quite hazy about what it proves, specifically, other than that “the bible is not true”.
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  1. Scottish Phil11/13/10, 3:59 PM

    You haven't given us a link for this or the last one.

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  2. Larry Hamelin11/13/10, 5:00 PM

    Doh! Fixed. Thanks.

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