NonStampCollector

I now have an account on Bluesky. Search for NonStampCollector. I don't know if I'll do much there, but I'm sure not going to do anything here on this shitty awful site. I still enjoy responding to video comments so I'll likely respond on Bluesky, too. I hope to see you there.

Has it ever happened? What would it look like? Someone reasoning their way to a belief that the texts of the Bible are supernaturally inerrant. What kind of reasoning process would that involve? By looking at the contents, and... And then what? Squaring them with reality? What?

It's difficult to enunciate, but those who say the Bible is supernaturally inerrant are claiming the single most unlikely thing that could ever have happened in the history of human writing is just a basic default, and that any naturalistic doubts had better be 1000% watertight.

The parents of the youth killed by the bears that God sent in 2 Kings 2 probably had the same gratitude. I wonder who picked up all the bits of flesh and guts strewn around though. Or maybe they just left it all out for birds and ants and rodents.

If God can create the universe out of nothing, He can cause all people born on Tuesdays to have great big orange duck feet.

"Free will" is apparently a good thing that God wanted us to have. The trade-off? Our capacity to rebel & lose fellowship with Him. Worth it, though, apparently. Otherwise we're mindless robots. But heaven will have no rebellion against God. Not possible. Heaven = being a robot.

I'll count the minutes until I'm blocked...

Since Jesus rose from the dead, we can trust in the truth of his words with full confidence that anonymous authors writing decades later were accurate in their translations of his spoken Aramaic into written Greek. [Christian logic]

Do young Christians still wear those WWJD? wristbands to remind themselves to ask "What Would Jesus Do?" when choosing a course of action? I sure hope so. Coz one of the alternatives might be to model their behaviors on What Old-Testament God Would Do.

Questions for grown adults to ponder in 2023. I didn't bother to tap on the video because the content was never going to be as thought-provoking as the introduction sentence. Educated, literate adults discuss whether animals did or did not die before a certain human event.

Imagine how wise and powerful a deity would have to be to conceive of and create a universe into which it could temporarily insert billions of sentient beings and have 90% of them subsequently experience endless conscious suffering.

As an atheist, what moral standard should I appeal to if I want to assert that having a subjective moral standard for morality is better than having an objective one which posits that it's OK to murder members of your own family over their religious convictions? What a conundrum.

Are people really angered that they only get to see a limited amount of the sewage that flows through this app? "After you've been showered with 600 gallons of effluent we're shutting off the hose." "FUCK YOU ELON!!! I DEMAND UNLIMITED FECES!!!" Sounds like a deliverance to me.

Christianity: the belief that a god created a universe that would contain a mostly-inhospitable speck of dust upon which beings would involuntarily inhabit meat-bodies for a brief instant before He would subject them to eternal conscious suffering for not being as good as Him.

Hey check it out everyone! They're now admitting publicly that their thought process is completely irrational. "If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to wear purple trousers." "If Jesus rose from the dead, then every day should be called 'Wednesday'."