Tim O'Neill

Just uploaded to the History for Atheists channel, my long awaited interview with Prof. Bart Ehrman on Jesus Mythicism. youtube.com/watch?v=aKP_Yk…

@HlevvagastiR @Century_Toad @ms_samldn @jvcx213 Not my area, sorry.

@Century_Toad @ms_samldn @jvcx213 You’re basing this on what exactly? What is the current theology of the COE? @TimONeill007 Sorry to be disturbing you but is the claim above correct?

Why can’t British people leave this Oliver Twist mentality in the past. Like literally every few days someone comes online to tell us how they were surviving on bread and sugar water and we should all accept that standard of living today. SHUT UP

@TheKanojia Galileo was prosecuted because he embarrassed his patron, the Pope. Though in a way he was prosecuted because he went *with* the Bible. But I don’t expect someone who claims Copernicus and Darwin were in any way “prosecuted” to understand what I mean by that.

Translation: We prosecuted Giordano Bruno, Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, Charles Darwin and many others because they went against the Bible. Today AI is exposing our foundation. #MagnificaHumanitas

@agski48 @YouTube Nonsense. See below. Read and learn. historyforatheists.com/2025/03/galile…

@TimONeill007 @YouTube The accepted date for the Vatican admitting the Earth did in fact revolve around the Sun is 1822.

Galileo Galilei youtube.com/shorts/P-LXjP-… via @YouTube Fun fact: it took another 300 years for the Catholic Church to admit we revolve around the sun..

@akephalos_SK @Trierarch81 Last week I heard it was the dreaded Wokes. Are they in alliance with the Christians? 🤔🤷‍♂️

@Trierarch81 It's just cope from Christians who don't want to admit they plunged Europe into an anti-intellectual dark age

The polite fiction that the European Dark Ages are a “myth” is now collapsing under an avalanche of data.

@Trierarch81 Okay, here’s WHY they’re called the Early Middle Ages now:- historyforatheists.com/2024/09/the-gr…

Can’t wait for the medievalist bros to show up with the obligatory: “Erm ackshually they’re called the Early Middle Ages now.”

@balajis And the Great Library of Alexandria ceased to exist in the fourth century, before Christianity became dominant. The myth it was destroyed by Christians was an invention of Edward Gibbon and is total nonsense. See below for more: historyforatheists.com/2017/07/the-de…

@balajis ... If any Classical texts can be read today, we have Christian schlars to thank for their preservation. And no, pagan texts were not "burned". See below for details on the common myths and actual history here: historyforatheists.com/2020/03/the-gr…

Western civilization has collapsed before. But a few scholars preserved the ideas that once made Rome great. They made a backup, and it did eventually come all the way back. It just took one thousand years.

@Angry_Amphibian @balajis 🙄Didn't see that.

@TimONeill007 @balajis In these paragraphs @balajis seems to be crediting monasteries and blaming Christianity at the same time.

@Angry_Amphibian @balajis Not really. It's mainly tracking some measures of what happens when an Empire and its trade and infrastructure falls apart. Though given the source is that weird Crémieux grifter, I'd be careful of what data is being used.

@balajis @TimONeill007 this look suspiciously like "The Chart".

@johnpauldickson @SawtelleAn5682 If he was being perfectly objective and rational, perhaps. But the JWs and many other examples show that people will convince themselves of very unlikely things to prevent cognitive dissonance when it comes to prophecies. And this isn't even especially unlikely.

@TimONeill007 @SawtelleAn5682 It seems to me there’s every reason for us — and Mark — to suspect Caiaphas was long gone by 68.

@johnpauldickson @SawtelleAn5682 But, again, 30 was the minimum and in the first century it could be even younger. Another issue is not how old he *was* but rather if the gMark author *thought* he may still be alive. It's likely he was writing somewhere far from Judea and he couldn't exactly look him up on Wiki.

@Merleau1979 @ayinde_omot2504 @Brain9993733052 He's fallen silent, so perhaps he's realised he's out of his depth on history.

@TimONeill007 @ayinde_omot2504 @Brain9993733052 History Man is actually an Entertainment & Recreational Man. We should treat him as such.

the Church banned heliocentrism, banned dissection of human bodies and banned translations of scripture for centuries. if Christianity gets credit for the science that happened despite its resistance then the argument is not about Christianity. it's about human beings who refused to stop thinking

@johnpauldickson @SawtelleAn5682 ... political appointment by this period and some much younger men were appointed if expedient - e.g. Aristobulus III was just 17. Leavind aside some doubts about the Caiaphas Ossuary, the remains inside are assessed to be "at *least* 60", so could be older.

@johnpauldickson @SawtelleAn5682 Okay, but there are several big "ifs" there. Num 4:3 putr the minimum age for service as a priest at 30, not 35. So if that was consistently applied in the 1st century, that would make him c.70 as a minimum when gMark was written. But we know the high priesthood was a ...

P1: If Christianity is true, Jesus cannot lie. P2: Jesus stated he would return before his contemporaries died. P3: Jesus did not return before his contemporaries died. C: Christianity is not true. Supporting argument negating metaphorical objection: P1: A biblical prediction is either a literal prophecy or a metaphor. P2: If it is a literal prophecy, it failed (which makes Jesus mistaken). P3: If it is a metaphor, it is not an actual prophecy (which invalidates the prophetic claim). P4: Jesus cannot be mistaken, and his prophetic claims cannot be invalid. C: The Christian theological position is self-contradictory.

@johnpauldickson @SawtelleAn5682 ... there could still be alive (ask the JWs about that problem). But, of course, you won’t find that convincing either. It’s always interesting to discuss these things with people of different views and are happy to do so in good faith (no pun intended there 😉) Cheers John.

@johnpauldickson @SawtelleAn5682 ... Mark 9:1, Matt 16:28 and Luke 9:27 all use “shall not taste death” as the defining element. So any technical definition of “a generation” is not relevant here. So this becomes an increasing problem as time goes on and it gets harder and harder to argue anyone standing ...