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@YourGirlCrib96 @_OKJ__ @PaunonenSami Because it makes for a more compelling story. I haven't avoided anything. The authors had minimum of decades to tweak the story, and it's known they built off Mark, making each subsequent gospel more fantastical.

@weeble3131 @_OKJ__ @PaunonenSami They’re hostile or neutral sources, not believers. That’s exactly why historians value them. They confirm the core events without bias toward Christianity. As far as the resurrection itself, you’re avoiding my question. Why did the disciples suddenly change after the 3rd day ?

This was in fact made up.

@Happyja @wiild__flowerr @HanoverFiste101 @pgphysio20 @BIG_J222 I challenge you to find any modern scientific source that says everything came from nothing for no reason.

@wiild__flowerr @HanoverFiste101 @pgphysio20 @BIG_J222 Believing everything comes from absolutely nothing for no reason at all takes more faith than anyone who believes in God.

If freewill is the reason God doesn’t intervene… Then why did He intervene so much in Bible stories?

@YourGirlCrib96 @_OKJ__ @PaunonenSami Ask yourself why the gospels don't even have a consistent timeline of the empty tomb? Why did mary find it empty by herself in John then in the other gospels she goes back to the tomb later to prepare the body that she should know is gone.

@weeble3131 @_OKJ__ @PaunonenSami Ask yourself: Where are the specific parallel cases? Who else claimed: a public execution, an empty tomb, appearances to groups and sparked a movement in the same city it happened? That combination is not “common” that’s historically unique.

@PaunonenSami @YourGirlCrib96 @_OKJ__ I'd imagine that a god who came with the most important message for all of humanity would have found a proper way to preserve his message. Considering the nt was written in a language jesus didn't even speak, i have no reason to believe anything about him is accurate

@weeble3131 @YourGirlCrib96 @_OKJ__ But do we have every single thing that was written in that time? Who knows if people wrote of these events and more, but they were lost? I'd imagine the people who wanted Jesus dead would go out of their way to snuff out any mention of His resurrection, don't you think?

@YourGirlCrib96 @_OKJ__ @PaunonenSami Considering none of it was written down as it happened, it's not difficult to imagine these series of events were embellished for a more captivating narrative. Contemporarish records saying people worshiped a dude but the dude recording it doesn't find it compelling isn't a win

@weeble3131 @_OKJ__ @PaunonenSami Non-Christian historians confirming it is the point !! It makes sources MORE valuable because they’re hostile/neutral witnesses/report. and “resurrection stories were common” doesn’t explain why this one started in the same city with eyewitnesses willing to die for it.

@YourGirlCrib96 @_OKJ__ @PaunonenSami Josephus confirms that there were some people worshipping Jesus. But considering be was a jew in the same era it should give you pause. Because he never became a Christian. As for the rapid expansion of the resurrection tale, those tales were common then.

@_OKJ__ @PaunonenSami 1st–2nd century non-Christian historians like Tacitus & Josephus confirm Jesus’ execution and the rapid spread of resurrection belief. That means this wasn’t a later legend, it started right where and when it supposedly happened. On top of that, the earliest followers went from-

@nathanmcmillen_ @_OKJ__ @PaunonenSami In 1 gospel mary mag goes alone and discovers the tomb empty, then in another she goes back with everyone else to spice the body and is surprised when the body is gone.

@_OKJ__ @PaunonenSami Where do they contradict?

@TonyMon68982724 @_OKJ__ They were convinced they were hanging out with the messiah and would be heavily rewarded when they died. People can hold wrong beliefs without lying.

@_OKJ__ Have you ever seen someone die for a lie like the disciples? Did they get riches on earth? Did they become kings? Kelvin?

@WilliamRayX @chuckdawg95 Profound enough to rip the verbage and message from the quite famous voyager pale blue dot ponderings 🤷‍♀️

@chuckdawg95 Profound enough to remind 8 billion people they're on the same blue dot hurtling through space together. Some see wonder. Others just see a chance to type 'you're not profound.' Glad you're in the photo with us.

STUNNING🚨: Artemis II crew captured a stunning image of Earth this morning from 41,000 miles away. The first time since 1972 that humans have seen a crescent Earth in full.

@Csweazy901 @esecs1 @latestinspace This dumb in public without a blue check. Amazing

@esecs1 @latestinspace So in 8 hours we will see stars?

🚨 This was the Artemis II crew's view this morning from 41,756 miles (67,200 km) up No human has seen a crescent Earth in full since 1972

@sweetbud538015 @MermaidMgroyper @alexboge Yeah, here we are. 5 years after 5.5 billion people got the covid vaccine and we're fine. Every day without an extinction level collapse should be a call for you to get your head out of your ass

@MermaidMgroyper @alexboge What other reasons are needed? The gene therapy shots were safe and effective too. But, here we are. Didn't pan out that way. I guess it pays to think for yourself.

With almost no fanfare, Artemis II has already passed straight through what moon landing deniers love to call the “deadly, impenetrable” Van Allen radiation belts. Except… they aren’t. They’re regions of trapped charged particles - mapped, measured, and understood for decades. Even Dr. James Van Allen himself noted that with proper trajectory and shielding, passing through them is not a problem. Mission planners minimize exposure by carefully selecting the flight path and limiting time in the most intense regions. Spacecraft are shielded. Radiation dose is tracked and kept within safe limits. This isn’t a mystery to us, it’s just physics and engineering. We’ve done it before. We just did it again.

@fiercepatricks Pretty sure we're finding out more and more that it's self loathing and rancid projection that bring about these poor arguments from conservative leadership.

Gay kids read thousands of books about straight characters, yet they still grow up gay. But y'all are worried if your son, Billy, reads just one book where a penguin has two dads, he is going to wake up the next day and ask Brad to prom.

@JackMatherIRL @KrissyQuark @MeachamDr There's no pivot, only the truth that bad science is only ever exposed by good science. Never anything divine.

@weeble3131 @KrissyQuark @MeachamDr Holy SHIT!!! You trying to pivot this discussion away from the obvious truth I laid before you by weaving in "God" is so absurd. You are definitely the animal who will appeal to authority and grovel even harder knowing how contaminated the system is with bogus studies. Bravo.👏

Science launched that rocket.

@JackMatherIRL @KrissyQuark @MeachamDr Good, not a one of them was pulled or refuted by god. Again, when a scientist releases their findings, they want you to find fault in it. That's the process. Challenge the fuck out of everything. It's how we find answers.

@weeble3131 @KrissyQuark @MeachamDr More than 10K peer-reviewed research papers were retracted in 2023, marking a record high & a sharp increase from around 1K in 2013. Retractions have increased 10-fold in 20 years. 2/3rds linked to misconduct, compromised peer review or paper mills, rather than honest errors.

@snowiecone William Shatner

gun to your head name a canadian

@bennynotblanco I pretty much only call it x to insult it

we’re still not calling this shit X

@Madness832 @TansuYegen Probably keeps people from parking there and blocking the visibility of the turn

@TansuYegen What are those even for? Bus stops?🤔

No way, it was dirty like that...

@JackMatherIRL @KrissyQuark @MeachamDr All scientists record their findings and challenge anyone to find fault. Your scientific illiteracy and propensity for conspiracy keep you trapped in your sloppy book. The only ones blindly bowing to an unjustified authority are theist. Quit projecting your ignorance.

@weeble3131 @KrissyQuark @MeachamDr So, the "answers are out there"? Correct. For all those that choose to notice them rather than be told to them what the "right answers" are from "trusted authority figures" who are highly incentivized to put forward claims/work not necessarily aligned with truth.

@thedjwcc @SirFoxFur @oliverburdick So are Jesus and Yaweh not gods? Besides, even the 1st commandment argues otherwise, "you shall have no other gods before me"

@SirFoxFur @oliverburdick There are no other gods.

Atheists only seem to hate one God...

@JackMatherIRL @KrissyQuark @MeachamDr The answers are out there. You don't have to be a textbook example of the argument from incredulity...

@KrissyQuark @MeachamDr They come from "evolution"? The claimed natural order of things? If so, why haven't other biological life forms in this world outside of the human race not establish their own bodies of work of "science"? Don't tell us that's b/c the timeline of "evolution" varies. Non starter.