Comments on: Perhaps there is a god https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/30/perhaps-there-is-a-god/ Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:12:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: BobbyEarle https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/30/perhaps-there-is-a-god/#comment-550642 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:12:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/30/perhaps-there-is-a-god/#comment-550642 You are right, Greg. I take back my smart ass comment.

After seeing this sort of thing from the fundies over and over again, it starts me thinking that the only way to mentally cope is to immediately to into sarcasm mode.

Must. Control. Myself.

]]> By: greg laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/30/perhaps-there-is-a-god/#comment-550641 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:54:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/30/perhaps-there-is-a-god/#comment-550641 Bobby, I’m sure M was just being helpful. I do not want to get my bible verses fucked up, or I could possibly go to hell. That’s what the nuns told me, anyway….

(Seriously, mw, I do appreciate the correction on the verse)

]]> By: BobbyEarle https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/30/perhaps-there-is-a-god/#comment-550640 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:51:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/30/perhaps-there-is-a-god/#comment-550640 You know, Greg, that Mweirick guy is right. That interweb dealy is very handy.

I just looked up the word “troll”.

]]> By: greg laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/30/perhaps-there-is-a-god/#comment-550639 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:59:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/30/perhaps-there-is-a-god/#comment-550639 Mweirick: You are correct, it is John, not Luke. Yes, thanks for letting me know about the Internet, I’ll have to check on that, sounds useful.

]]> By: mweirick https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/30/perhaps-there-is-a-god/#comment-550638 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:13:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/30/perhaps-there-is-a-god/#comment-550638 Sorry, Greg, but that verse that you quote is not from Luke. I suggest you check the Gospel according to John. As to the quote by Sen. Biden, that most likely was a reference to Matthew 16.

By the way, these things are very easy to check these days with all of the on-line Biblical references.

]]> By: natural cynic https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/30/perhaps-there-is-a-god/#comment-550637 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:56:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/30/perhaps-there-is-a-god/#comment-550637 This particular verse shows a total lack of correspondance with the reality of life in Judea during the early first century CE. The pharisees were the ones most likely to know the Mosaic Law, since they were the interpreters who applied it to daily life and religiouly [literally] studied it for the application to daily life. The scholarly tradition often associated with Judaism comes from the pharisaic ideals that were incorporated into rabbinic Judaism following the destruction of the Herodian Temple. The pharisees are often given a bad rap in the New Testament – ironic because Jesus would probably have been considered a pharisee of the school of Hillel. I would bet that many of the anti-pharisaic verses in the NT were redactions by the growing anti-Judaic sentiment among Christians during or after the end of the first century CE.

]]> By: Frank Oswalt https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/30/perhaps-there-is-a-god/#comment-550636 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:16:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/30/perhaps-there-is-a-god/#comment-550636 Someone ought to warn the folks around Grand Rapids, MI — their area code is the real number of the beast, as opposed to a scribal error…

]]>