The very admission of the need to harmonize is an admission that the burden of proof is on … - Robert M. Price

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The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.

Robert M. Price

The very admission of the need to harmonize is an admission that the burden of proof is on the narratives, not on those who doubt them. What harmonizing shows is that despite appearances, the texts still might be true.

Admission, Burden Of Proof, Doubt, Harmonize, Proof, Religion

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Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death.

Away, Believe, Past, Real, Stand, Wiser

The piety of "having a personal relationship with Christ". . . is alien to the New Testament. . . but evangelicals elevate it to the shibboleth of salvation! Unless you have a personal relationship with Jesus, buster, one day you will be boiling in Hell. Sheesh! Talk about the fury of a personal savior scorned!

Alien, Atheism, Buster, Hell, Jesus, One Day

In broad outline and in detail, the life of Jesus as portrayed in the gospels corresponds to the worldwide Mythic Hero Archetype in which a divine hero's birth is supernaturally predicted and conceived, the infant hero escapes attempts to kill him, demonstrates his precocious wisdom already as a child, receives a divine commission, defeats demons, wins acclaim, is hailed as king, then betrayed, losing popular favor, executed, often on a hilltop, and is vindicated and taken up to heaven.

Children, Commission, Infant, Jesus, Kings, Mythic

Who needs Satan when you have a God like this?

Atheist, God, Needs, Satan

The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood.

Childhood, Gospel, Joy, Prolonging, Promise, Promises