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varun

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Wed May-20-09 12:26 AM
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Former fundamentalist 'debunks' Bible

Wow...even the fundies are starting to turn around!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/05/15/bible.critic/index.html

Ehrman, a best-selling author and a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a biblical sleuth whose investigations make some people very angry. Like the fictional Robert Langdon character played by actor Tom Hanks in the movie "Angels & Demons," he delves into the past to challenge some of Christianity's central claims.

In Ehrman's latest book, "Jesus, Interrupted," he concludes:

Doctrines such as the divinity of Jesus and heaven and hell are not based on anything Jesus or his earlier followers said.

At least 19 of the 27 books in the New Testament are forgeries.....

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Waiting For Everyman

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Wed May-20-09 12:35 AM
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1. The article gives no reason or argument for that last statement.

He doesn't impress me as an "expert".

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Mythsaje

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Wed May-20-09 12:43 AM
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5. Actually, I recall running into something that broke them down linguistically and logically

that seems to verify that statement. Damned if I can remember where and when.

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LostInAnomie

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Wed May-20-09 12:38 AM
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2. He's about the 300,000,000 person to debunk the Bible.

It's actually pretty easy.

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provis99

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Wed May-20-09 12:41 AM
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3. Ehrman is a fool

He's simply stating the obvious, that the Bible is a bunch of bullcrap, but where he's a fool is that he believes this Christianity nonsense anyways. That's even worse than those who are too stupid to see the Bible for what it is.

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grantcart

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Wed May-20-09 01:12 AM
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6. ehrman is now an agnostic humanistc secularist and no longer believes

in the supernatural claims of the bible.

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Mythsaje

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Wed May-20-09 12:42 AM
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4. If I'm not mistaken,

Thomas Jefferson did the same thing.

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w4rma

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Wed May-20-09 01:42 AM
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7. "some Christians worry they will make the same decision he has."

Edited on Wed May-20-09 01:44 AM by w4rma

Whether it's his family, critics or students, Ehrman says he has a better handle on why he is so threatening to so many people -- some Christians worry they will make the same decision he has.

This is the fundamental reason why most fundamentalists are so afraid of new ideas and knowledge.

Our education plan allows us to make further gains in the suburbs. It will also allow us to make gains with Hispanics and African-Americans. As people do better, they start voting like Republicans -- unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
Karl Rove, quoted in the "Daily Texan," March 19, 2001

Karl Rove understands this, too. It applies to politics, also.

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