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PopeBeanie wrote:

His PhD is in physics, not religion or Islam,

There is a word to describe this exact situation: Ultracrepidarian.

I used the story (in the link) during a debate with a priest and theologian who was “teaching” me about Evolution because I was “all wrong” when I said dogs are descendants of wolves and that birds are modern…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Here is a clip from the show “Miracles for Sale” by Derren Brown.

Haha, right after that clip, youtube fed me an ad for an “acupuncture pen“. Isn’t science wonderful!? (I am just kidding here about the ‘science’, folks.)

Davis wrote:

It’s not that hard to motivate people into believing incredible things based on a good show and huge smiles and confidence.

Oh man, visions of Scientology popped up just now.

Robert_ wrote:

Can Islam integrate with western society. Not according to this expert

He seems like a whack job to me. I watched the whole video, which was so full of drooling bias and just-so certainty I couldn’t decide which of of his “facts” were true. His PhD is in physics, not religion or Islam, and his audience sounded like they were there…[Read more]

I describe Jesus in my book “The Greatest Scam Ever Sold” as a scam artist who went around staging fake miracles the same way faith healers do today. Lazarus was a shill who pretended to be dead.  The Apostles were part of the scam operation, and of course four of them wrote the Gospels, describing fake miracles.  The Romans crucified Christ for b…[Read more]

Here is a clip from the show “Miracles for Sale” by Derren Brown.

He’s a hypnotist/social-pressureist. People have been doing it for years. Some of his victims actually experience change (in their minds) and believe something miraculous happened. It’s not that hard to motivate people into believing incredible things based on a good show and huge smiles and confidence. Others simply go along with whatever the…[Read more]

@Physeter – I am looking forward to reading it because I know it will be honest, lucid and difficult to argue against.

I believed in Jesus for about 23 years. I thought he was my best friend. Other people talked about the Holy Spirit leading them in this or that, and about God speaking to them through this or that, but I felt like it never happened to me. I was supposed to have a “Personal Relationship with Jesus,” but it was like no other relationship I’d ever…[Read more]

If the healer had accidentally touched him twice he might have ended up with a spare! Then he really would be pulling the other one.

 But he is claimed to have generated missing genitalia in Africa. I want to see the evidence.

Now that may be the first time I would turn down an opportunity to see the evidence.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

I want to see the evidence.

Yes, don’t we all, Michael17 🙂 That is all anyone wants when they don’t take assertions and hearsay on faith alone. When someone makes a claim without any collaborative evidence it is reasonable to doubt its veracity. When someone makes supernatural claims without any collaborative evi…

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I want to see the evidence. 

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

“The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.” Émile Zola.

Nor one glass eyeball. But he is claimed to have generated missing genitalia in Africa. I want to see the evidence.

“The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.”

Émile Zola.

_Robert_ wrote:

You pulling our legs man?

I wouldn’t, but the question, Is he?

You pulling our legs man?