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“It wasn’t just the fact that Christians were ignorant about philosophical theories that annoyed Celsus; it was that Christians actually reveled in their ignorance.”
― The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
― The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
“Utter trash. —the Greek intellectual Celsus evaluates the Old Testament”
― The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
― The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
“It really is 11:59pm on the “Age of Religions” clock for humankind. It is time to move on.”
― Beyond God - Why Religions are False, Outdated and Dangerous
― Beyond God - Why Religions are False, Outdated and Dangerous
“Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.”
― The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political ... Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound
― The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political ... Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound
“But unlike the apologists who struggle to make historical sense of Mark’s scenario, we really don’t need to waste much speculation trying to solve these difficulties – since there’s a bigger problem with the entire set-up. Perhaps the single biggest historical difficulty with the customary releasing of a prisoner at Passover (Mark 15:6) … is that we have no corroborating evidence whatsoever that this “custom” ever existed. Neither the Jews, the Romans nor Pilate himself ever had a custom of freeing prisoners on Passover (or any other day), not that an occupational governor would ever have offered to release a convicted murderer and anti-Roman insurrectionist even if that were the case. Christians have spent years scouring Roman and Jewish records in search of supporting evidence to justify the historical veracity of this so-called Privilegium Paschale, to no avail (see Nailed, pp. 97-99).”
― Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. I
― Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. I
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