Explain Evangelical support for @realDonaldTrump after multiple sexual assault, infidelity, payoffs, and lack of basic compassion for human wellbeing without defaulting to “we have the same policy goals.”
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Friend, with all due respect, we’ve got two of the greatest minds in the world chatting today. Do you really want to talk about Mr. Trump?
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Can an individual mind with the experience of 30-40 years stand up to judge the 10s of 1000s years experience of the human race?
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Nailed it.
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how much of Christianity is appropriated from pagans ?
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Great question. I second this.
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What are the top three things that atheists get wrong about modern, intellectually serious Christianity?
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Push him on mythicism.
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Do you mean Mithraism?
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No, although if there's time (seems improbable) that could be fruitful too.
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I wouldn’t push him on it because his view is so incredibly clear and well-known.
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Is there a particular work of his touching that that you’d recommend?
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If you’re asking me, the two best are “Lost Christianities” & “How Jesus Became God.” “The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture” is technical and scholarly but extremely impressive. This last book is alright. I preview and review it with Pinker’s here:https://www.joullayne.com/single-post/2018/02/09/The-New-God-Term …
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God’s Problem is good too.
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Absolutely! I didn’t think about it, but that would probably be a better conversation.
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I understand he was a devout Christian who is now an agnostic. Ask what specific doctrinal ideas or pages in bible helped sew doubt.
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Ehrman is an atheist https://ehrmanblog.org/agnostic-or-atheist-for-members/ …
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no he is not
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I assume you didn’t read his own words in the link I posted then? “So I’m an agnostic atheist. Or an atheistic agnostic. Take your pick.” Bart Ehrman
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If you don't believe in god you're a-theist. Agnosticism simply means you don't know. Well, no one 'knows' when it comes to the existence of god. You either believe it or you don't.
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Bart has long identified as an "agnostic", which is literally a form of atheism. In recent years, he's called himself an "agnostic atheist". Bart's a brilliant man, but he must have at some point thought atheism meant certainty. It doesn't, at least not necessarily.
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Yes, I can see the logic in his thinking, but to me the phrase 'agnostic atheist' means 'not knowing whether or not you are atheist' which is a bit weird. It may be that he identifies this way because so many people misunderstand the word atheist only to mean certainty.
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That’s not the definition though. Agnostic atheists are atheistic because they do not hold a belief in a god, and agnostic because the claim that there isn’t a god cannot be proven.
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