Da Udder Athiewst Muss Be Soo Proud a him
krissthesexyatheist, as he calls himself and his blog, is mocking Christianity, and particularly some biblical literalists, with mocking voice and spelling meant to show that Christians don’t know what they are talking about. And he does?
Lies and deception are just a couple of the reasons we have for turning from Team Belief to Team Atheist. Really man, was there really a guy named Jesus that walked da erffs, did that Exodus thing really happen . . .
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Let’s line up some bible stories and check out the truth factors. Let’s virgin birth, probably not, and that goes for the resurrection also. Those are both highly unlikely events. Did the Exodus happen, mmmm, probably not because dontcha think we would have seen evidence of a great migration in the way of pottery, poo poo, skeletons, food whatever by now. I think so. Howz about the Shroud of Turin. Fakey fake, yo.
So we have all these lies, or if you want you can call them untruths, that the bible supposedly told us. Jesus was born on december 25th.
Actually, such postings only help convince me that I’m right.
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Is the Shroud real? Probably.
The Shroud of Turin may be the real burial cloth of Jesus. The carbon dating, once seemingly proving it was a medieval fake, is now widely thought of as suspect and meaningless. Even the famous Atheist Richard Dawkins admits it is controversial. Christopher Ramsey, the director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Laboratory, thinks more testing is needed. So do many other scientists and archeologists. This is because there are significant scientific and non-religious reasons to doubt the validity of the tests. Chemical analysis, all nicely peer-reviewed in scientific journals and subsequently confirmed by numerous chemists, shows that samples tested are chemically unlike the whole cloth. It was probably a mixture of older threads and newer threads woven into the cloth as part of a medieval repair. Recent robust statistical studies add weight to this theory. Philip Ball, the former physical science editor for Nature when the carbon dating results were published, recently wrote: “It’s fair to say that, despite the seemingly definitive tests in 1988, the status of the Shroud of Turin is murkier than ever.” If we wish to be scientific we must admit we do not know how old the cloth is. But if the newer thread is about half of what was tested – and some evidence suggests that – it is possible that the cloth is from the time of Christ.
No one has a good idea how front and back images of a crucified man came to be on the cloth. Yes, it is possible to create images that look similar. But no one has created images that match the chemistry, peculiar superficiality and profoundly mysterious three-dimensional information content of the images on the Shroud. Again, this is all published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
We simply do not have enough reliable information to arrive at a scientifically rigorous conclusion. Years ago, as a skeptic of the Shroud, I came to realize that while I might believe it was a fake, I could not know so from the facts. Now, as someone who believes it is the real burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth, I similarly realize that a leap of faith over unanswered questions is essential.
My name is Dan Porter. Please email me at DanielRobertPorter@gmail.com
“The fool says in his hear, ‘there is no God.’”
Two comments:
1) The guy is clearly a narcissist – ["Look at me - I can blog about nothing!"] As for “Team” Atheist – I couldn’t get to see any comments on his site so far, could be the other atheists are ignoring him – how frustrating that must be for a narcissist!
2) He’s a specific example of the predictable reaction against Biblical literalism. The literalists bring true religion into so much disrepute, that they themselves inadvertently create the myth of implausible religion, with the result that guys like this think they’re doing a world a service in lampooning it. I note his emphasis on “dinosaurs on the Ark and the myth of the Great Flood” – this is the natural fruit of the creationists’ doctrine. I bet he’s never heard of the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Babylonian survivor of the Great Flood, Utnapishtim. I don’t know that any rational person believes in the God that Krisetc doesn’t believe in. “Faith without Rationality is Fanaticism” and maybe deserves lampooning! Unfortunately, he’s spreading his net too wide. Probably from a natural inborn ignorance!
I love that picture of “The Fool” all decked out in his pretty best, complete with swag over his shoulder, (no doubt he’s remembered to bring his toothbrush). It’s a clear sunny day, and the little dog is barking his warnings, but the Fool doesn’t see he’s about to walk over the precipice and plunge to his doom.