Matthew Atkinson

@SoapOpera411 Aww, thanks Amber!

We Want THOMAS! The love I have for this bad boy/lover boy knows no bounds. We need him back on B&B FOREVER! #BB #BoldandtheBeautiful

@_dnj81 Thanks!

@TJHunter1842 @RandalRauser Having a committee of 47 Greek and Hebrew Scholars create a Bible most accurately translating to solve theological disputes in a land is hardly the same thing as rebranding that Bible 421 years later to make money off of Trump endorsing Christian nationalists.

@RandalRauser Is this also insane?

FROM A CHRISTIAN POINT OF VIEW, IT'S ALSO INSANE.

@sscott2205 @MauriceBenard @mbstateofmind I’d love to!

@JMattAtkinson can you please go on @mbstateofmind with @MauriceBenard

Thanks everyone!

@AdamPage85 It’s assumed then that all portrayals of Jesus would be in this category. Would @VoddieBaucham also say that making any image of Jesus shouldn’t be participated in? (I’d guess this would include paintings, other films and TV series, etc)

Voddie Baucham said he will not watch the Chosen because he believes it violates the 2nd commandment. Interesting.

@Goodbye_Jesus It was sarcasm - as you know the point of Jesus being the great physician is grounded in healing people spiritually. Same verse: “I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” How does Him not directly teaching microbiology in the gospels refute this?

@JMattAtkinson Actually, I read the entire passage several times.

#exChristian Was Jesus the Great Physician? "For most of human history, the average lifespan has hovered one or two years above or below the age of 31. Between 1770 and 1900, the worldwide average for life expectancy increased from 29 to 33 years. Then, between 1900 and 2015, worldwide life expectancy rose from 33 to 71 years." From Four Disturbing Questions by Tim Sledge citing Steven Pinker in Enlightenment Now and Max Roser, “Life Expectancy: Chart: Life expectancy globally and by world regions since 1770,” Our World in Data on ourworldindata.org. #agnostic

@JaigenCole @Goodbye_Jesus It is, and I didn’t. You still haven’t actually engaged my critique.

@JMattAtkinson @Goodbye_Jesus When it comes to rational discourse, stretching is a bad thing. It means you have taken a concept and stretched it to mean something it doesn't actually mean.

@JaigenCole @Goodbye_Jesus Thanks? No matter what you call it, this is not a rational critique from Tim.

@JMattAtkinson @Goodbye_Jesus Dude, Mr Fantastic, Plastic Man, Elastigirl, Stretch Armstrong, Monkey D. Luffy, Gleep & Gloop, and Dhalsim are all jealous of your ability to stretch things.

@ThinkingAtheist Alright, that gave me a smirk.

@Rhettro @Goodbye_Jesus I do. It’s surprising to me that he would produce this.

@JaigenCole @Goodbye_Jesus The “great physician” is an analogous phrase. If one pretends it’s literal to refute it (which is a different proposition) they have produced a straw man.

@JMattAtkinson @Goodbye_Jesus How is it a straw man? Please, show us you know more than the name of a fallacy by pointing out what makes it a straw man.

@DeanSorenmann @Goodbye_Jesus The question assumes the literal of an analogy, which is clarified in the same verse the quote phrase is from.

@jeffvcook @DrFrankTurek I’d love to know how your theology differs between your pre and post deconstruction selves. Major changes or deeper understandings.

I've hardly ever seen a so-called "deconstruction" (where somebody leaves Christianity, they deconstruct their faith) that does not somehow bring up sexual behavior as a reason they left Christianity.

@DrFrankTurek You’re not hearing from a wide range of people then. I’ve rarely heard a case where divine hiddenness, the problem of evil, or religious trauma weren’t the catalyst. Do you spend a lot of time on college campuses?

@RandalRauser We can tell. 😄

The version of the "Good News" I learned growing up included viewing the vast majority of humanity as cord wood about to be tossed into the cosmic furnace of divine judgment along with the imminent fiery destruction of the universe. Oh, and Jesus loves you.😱

@dacibov @ThinkingAtheist It seems that men and women, wearing God’s name on their shoulder, taught you a false gospel. Though you do still fall in a theist camp: believing in an energy of consciousness that is in and through all and commands moral judgement through karma.

@JMattAtkinson @ThinkingAtheist That is in my opinion, even following his own teachings, the epitome of a bad person, and that technique is the blueprint used by all bad people to bend the will of other people. Sacrifice, Favour, Love, Betrayal, Wrath, Forgiveness, Requests, Favour. That's how they brainwash.

@dacibov @ThinkingAtheist We’re you raised in a church by any chance?

@JMattAtkinson @ThinkingAtheist I believe we are all connected. I believe the higher self to be a projection from my collected thoughts and ideas, consciously, and unconsciously, but I also believe that all energy is recycled and therefore I have connections from past, and present, with all beings. 1/