What did the Bible originally say?
“It is one thing to say that the originals were inspired, but the reality is that we don’t have the originals - so saying they were inspired doesn’t help me much, unless I can reconstruct the originals.”
“Not only do we not have the originals, we don’t have the first copies of the originals. We don’t even have copies of the copies of the originals, or copies of the copies of the copies of the originals. What we have are copies made later - much later. In most instances, they are copies made many centuries later. And these copies all differ from one another, in many thousands of places.”
– Bart D. Ehrman, Misquoting Jesus
You’re who needs Jesus the most. I was like you once, looking for attention on the internet and fights about religion. The things is, you wouldn’t be investing all this energy into this if you didn’t genuinely care about the topic. I hope you come to Christ soon because the end is nearer than you think.
This is what I mean about Following me and obsessing about me.
I need "Jesus" - who we know never existed - as much as both of us need Clip-Clop, the Invisible Pink Unicorn. Imaginary friends are for children. I don't need your fictional crutch.
I didn't say I don't care about the topic.
"For someone so against religion you talk about God an awful lot" Yeah, I know a detective who talks about crime a lot. Mad isn't it?
-- Ricky Gervais
Oncologists spend a lot of time thinking and talking about cancer. Virologists spend a lot of time writing about and studying infections. People who fight famine and poverty spend a lot of time campaigning about it. UNICEF has dedicated an entire website to discussing the exploitation of children; they wouldn't put that much energy into this if they weren't secretly in favor of child exploitation, right?
Really? "Haha, you know stuff, so you must really believe it." This is your play? This smooth-brained, jaw-dropping idiocy is the best you can muster? My goodness.
With "wisdom" and "logic" like this, it's no wonder Xianity is steadily declining. This must be the senility phase of its twilight years. All the more reason that I want to help euthanize it and put it out of everyone's misery. You wonder why I post about it, and yet you are Exhibit A.
I post about it because people like you exist in the world and try to influence it through your beliefs, your arrogance, your baseless moralizing, your condescension, and your empty, worthless "faith." I post about it to help people resist and oppose people like you. You are not the audience, you are the subject matter.
As always, not ever do you offer an actual argument or evidence. You just spout some idiotic platitude, which serves only to make yourself feel righteous and give yourself a little buzz.
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear
You either can't or won't do this, even though your god tells you to.
Instead what you're doing is masturbatory. You vomit stupidity and obvious falsehoods at me solely as a form of public religious ejaculation, rather than to actually justify your beliefs. You're dragging me into your public piety fetish, chasing a moral-religious orgasm. Which makes you one of the hypocrites, needing to be seen.
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
I hope you come to reason, rationality and sanity, because lunatics like you have been predicting "the end" for over 2000 years now and not a single one of you has ever been right. None of you. And all of you have had the same justification, which tells you plenty.
The Gambler's Fallacy, also known as the Sunk Cost Fallacy, is where you persist with a losing proposition, because you've sunk so much effort and investment into it. Committing a little more, just a little more, just a little more, because you've already thrown so much away, what's a little more again? Instead of cutting your losses.
That's you. You've carelessly discarded all your belief to a proposition that has an exactly 100% failure rate over the last 2000 years, and despite that, you keep throwing all your intellectual capital away again and again and again and again, constantly, habitually betting on a horse that loses every time.