Jim Little

@ImantsRStrautin @randyjo93598077 @bigg_wildcat My claim, "well-argued," is cogent. I haven't real Schmidt's book yet. Though I'll be biased and poison- the- well and say I bet he special-pleads. I'm looking out for Ken Olson's response. Here's Olson's 2013 article on the issue, academia.edu/4062154/Olson_…

@JimLittle1 @randyjo93598077 @bigg_wildcat Are you 100% certain of that claim? Have you read the book found below? It’s on my To Do list.

@Murph0matic @hookskat The "No True Scotsman Fallacy" could/should be renamed the *No True Christian Fallacy*

It's fun watching Christians throw the No True Scotsman Fallacy at each other.

@deedeewhiteshep @DrG_d_CHEMIST His mum also represented Australia. And is a multiple medalist at world champs and Commonwealth Games (individually in the 200m)

@DrG_d_CHEMIST By their definition Aidan Murphy ain't a real Australian either , his mum was a 400 meter runner for Sri Lanka.

So Gout Gout broke the World U20 record over 200m (subject to ratification obviously) and somehow the discourse has become about RACE (and heritage)? Read a comment that said “it sucks for the real Australian who won’t be recognized for his 19.88s run”. Are ppl okay???

@KA_1dn Murphy is going sub 10, too. And sub 45. He's just getting started (he's only 22 and already represented Australia at 3 senior world champs).

If Aidan Murphy goes 21 again over 200m anytime soon, Erin Brown & American track twitter are gonna eat him up That 19.88 just put a target on his back

@kawhibernard @_LamNam_ @DailyLoud Not as fast as Lemaître yet. But he's only 22. Though he's already represented Australia at 3 senior World Championships (& a Junior World Champs). A huge talent in his own right (a potential Bolt, too).

@_LamNam_ @DailyLoud Christopher Lemaitre

NEW WORLD RECORD: 18-year-old sprint phenom Gout Gout has clocked a stunning 19.67 time in the 200m run, surpassing Usain Bolt’s legendary mark.

@RKING90210 @_LamNam_ @DailyLoud Nope. His mother was from Sri Lanka (a sprinter herself: a World Champs medalist for Australia).

@_LamNam_ @DailyLoud White White

@itzfolarin101 @_LamNam_ @DailyLoud Murphy's mother is from Sri Lanka. She was a very good 100-400m sprinter (for Australia: a World Champs medalist).

@_LamNam_ @DailyLoud He’s black

@MetaWire @dom_lucre Murphy's mother was/is Sri Lankan (& a very good 100-400m sprinter for Australia; & iiuc, for Sri Lanka before moving to Aus). He's 22 (23 in June). Big story is he's only the 6th person without African ancestry to go under 20 seconds. He's been to 3 senior World Champs already.

@dom_lucre What’s the bigger story here? That Gout Gout ran 19.67 & is the new world record holder, or that a white boy- Aidan Murphy also beat Usain Bolt’s world record at 19.88.

🔥🚨STOLEN NEWS: The fastest man in the world Usain Bolt has just been surpassed by an 18-year-old sprinting prodigy named Gout Gout who has made history after clocking a 19.67 time in the 200m run, surpassing Usain Bolt’s 19.93s mark he set in 2004. I wasn’t at this race so I had to steal this footage from the Australian Athletics Championships social media page to present it to all of you.

@patomariscal @grok @Demchille @dom_lucre Murphy is 22 yrs of age (23 in June). He's only the 6th person without African ancestry to go under 20 seconds. His mother was/is Sri Lankan and a very good 100-400m sprinter, too (for Australia and, iiuc, for Sri Lanka before moving to Australia).

@grok @Demchille @dom_lucre So he also broke Bolts record?

@JTedBell @MedcalfByESPN Gout ran 19.84 a yr ago this wk with a +2.2 wind. He's been under 20.0 at least one other time. Murphy is only 22. He's taken it easy-ish for 2-3 yrs. He ran 20.41 when he was 18 (the then Aus U20 record). He's fired up after a good 400m @ last year's World Champs. His 3rd Snr.

@MedcalfByESPN Aidan Murphy went from 20.41 to 19.88. .53 seconds. He hadn’t been below 20.5 in three years. Gout went from 20.02 to 19.67. .35 seconds In the same race. Think about this. Really hard.

I always assumed I would never acknowledge any conversation about a sprinter one day breaking Usain Bolt's records and then this dude showed up.

@hu_pow @glblathletichub Murphy is a former Australian U20 200m record holder. He represented Australia in the 200m in two senior World Championships by the time he was 20 and a half years of age. He's always had huge potential.

@glblathletichub Still gonna watch his next 200m closely.

Also Aidan Murphy improvement is not that strange, but people will use it to fit the agenda. He’s been doing primarily 400’s for the last two years, the 200’s he’s ran this year have been into heavy headwinds. Plus, this is the peak of the Australian season.

@randyjo93598077 @ImantsRStrautin @bigg_wildcat The supposed accounts about Jesus in the writings of Josephus (& Tacitus & Pliny the Younger) are all well-argued to be later Christian forgery-interpolations, ie. in full, not partial as many claim.

@ImantsRStrautin @bigg_wildcat that is irrelevant he wrote decades later he never met jesus & wasn't even a believer it only proves that the belief existed decades later...

@nbchef42 @iamAtheistGirl There's no evidence whatsoever NT Jesus was ever anything other than a literary figure, a storybook character, albeit in a lot of narratives, including narratives based on or about earlier narratives

@iamAtheistGirl Mythicism is pretty much indefensible but to call it the most documented and confirmed is ludicrous

@SprintsUp17478 @hiphopupd @vortex482446490 @TheErinBrown @TrackGazette * Silver medal

@hiphopupd @vortex482446490 @TheErinBrown @TrackGazette People were saying Kennedy's 60m times were fake, then he came out and took a bronze medal. People said SCR's times were fake, then she won the WC. People said SAFP and ETH's times were fake, then they kicked arse on the world stage. When are you People going to learn..?

19.67s!!!🤯🤯 World U20 Record ☑️ National Record ☑️ 18-year-old Gout Gout 🇦🇺 has just run a blazing 19.67s (1.7) to win the Australian men's 200m title!! He breaks the World U20 Record of 19.69s by Erriyon Knighton and goes 16th on the alltime list. Aidan Murphy 🇦🇺 was 2nd in a massive PB of 19.88s, while Calab Law was 3rd in 20.21s (PB).

@GarveBrahman @JoelMCurzon Fuck off with nasty patronizing. And your stoopid 'spit-balling.' Why are Christians such dumb-fucks?

@JimLittle1 @JoelMCurzon Dude wtf 😭 I am sharing ideas with you. Don’t be such a fag about it 🤙

Why would the gospel authors use women as witnesses to an alleged empty tomb in their stories, rather than men? (My hypothesis is that the idea of Jesus being placed in a tomb at all was a literary invention of “Mark.” Later gospels took the idea from Mark.)

@GarveBrahman @JoelMCurzon You're special-pleading and being disingenuous in doubling down with "Jesus could have predicted" And cherry-picking an obscure so-called prediction from eleswhere

@JimLittle1 @JoelMCurzon I think Jesus could have easily predicted the Temple being destroyed. A modern example: Joseph Smith predicted in 1832 that a Civil War would happen in the United States and begin in South Carolina. He made a lucky guess based on current trends (Nullification Crisis).

@GarveBrahman @JoelMCurzon "God-fearing Gentiles" and "took off" are doing a lot of 'lifting' there

@JimLittle1 @JoelMCurzon It really took off with God-fearing Gentiles. Eventually it developed into what we have today, in all it’s varieties. This is one way of looking at it 🤙 I think whatever happened, the early Church was more “charismatic” and loosely organized compared with later developments.

@GarveBrahman @JoelMCurzon * I presume you mean many component texts were edited & re-written via re-editing long after their first drafts were written. Though some, like Acts and the Pastoral epistles, +/- the catholic epistles, were probably written wholecloth or near wholecloth. x.com/i/status/20431…

@JimLittle1 @JoelMCurzon I think the NT was slowly compiled and edited long after being written. There were numerous sects inspired by Jesus Christ, but the “orthodox” won. Early Christianity was likely extremely charismatic, and chaotic. It gradually developed into an organized religion.

@GarveBrahman @JoelMCurzon A skeptical view has the so-called predictions written after the fact. And a charismatic leader being presented when one was required. One with proposals for a better life than this Temple-less one now has.

@JimLittle1 @JoelMCurzon If you took a skeptical view, Jesus Christ was an extremely charismatic leader who made apocalyptic predictions. The Temple being destroyed seem to vindicate his predictions. Pair that with visions of Him by His followers and you have the ingredients for the New Testament.

@Lainezor @TylerreneeM @MikeN4028V @YaSonicBoi1 @BillDoesStuff2 @darwintojesus That supposed account is, as I've already pointed out, and provided a scholarly article for, a later Christian forgery-interpolation. I'm done. Bye.

The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus provides a specific date and political context for the death of James in Antiquities of the Jews (AD 62). During the "interregnum" (the gap between two Roman governors, Festus and Albinus), the High Priest Ananus had James, the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, stoned to death This isn't a "heroic trope." Josephus records it because the Jewish residents were so outraged by this illegal execution that they complained to King Agrippa, who then fired the High Priest. A "literary character" cannot cause the documented political downfall of a real-world Roman-appointed High Priest.

This kind of anti-christian propaganda can be incredibly damaging to people's faith if they don't see what's really going on and how deceptive it is. So let's take a deep breath and think about this. Firstly, you don't go to hell "for being an atheist." Atheists don't even exist, and you go to hell for sinning. All humans sin. We lie... cheat... steal... etc. We all fall short of God's perfect standard. That's why God made a way for us to still enter back into a relationship with Him, but that requires us to repent, to turn from sin. The problem is that not everyone chooses to accept God's grace, so they go to hell, which is what we all deserve anyway. You might not like that, but your opinion is irrelevant. Secondly, this meme treats repentance like a magic "get out of jail free" card. This is a caricature of Christianity and what it teaches. Repentance is about more than just saying "sorry God" right before you die. It's about genuinely turning your entire life around and dying to yourself. It's not a flippant thing like the meme suggests. Thirdly, the meme plays strongly on our intuition about justice, but where does justice come from? Atheists want to say that this isn't just, but according to who, them? It's all just subjective and arbitrary on their view. The problem here is that atheists are trying to do an internal critique and an external critique at the same time. This is pretty much all they do btw. If they were purely doing an internal critique they would never question the justice or fairness of God because on our worldview that doesn't make sense (God is perfect), but if they try to do an external critique and judge God from their worldview, they're standing on a foundation of nothing. They don't have anything solid they can appeal to that would justify this claim. So instead they try to do both at the same time and just hope no one notices.