(showing fundies ability to warp reality and create new science for themselves)
Insight of the day: the Gospels do not use the secular concept of the "past", and neither did Jesus
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Insight of the day: Yes, they do, and yes, he did.
For fun, read this . Andy Schlafly has painted himself into a corner intellectually.
[ the Gospels do not use the secular concept of the "past", and neither did Jesus ]
Er-Jesus referes to the past several times in the Gospels.
Dear Conservapedia,
I thought I had read every idiotic theist claim, but this is entirely new to me. Congratulations! I wish I had a trophy to give you.
Or bash you over the head with. Preferably the latter.
Forget questions of "the past" or how time is structured in the Gospel narratives -- those four books are much more interesting when you consider them as deliberately mutually-contradictory accounts of a single character (kinda James Joyce-ish and very modernist). The Gospels, together, make a brilliant artistic statement about the subjectivity of memory and the inaccessibility of the "real nature" of any other person.
As theology, though, they kinda suck.
Oh that explains all the inconsistencies then, I can just seen the fundies rants now. "The bible never said that! You seculah past referencin' heathens, even if it did, the Lawd don't be usin' your seculah past. So it wasn't there even iffen it was. The Lawd works in mysterious ways, you wouldn't unnerstand."
What, is any event before now suddenly a fabrication of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy?
Is it me, or are the fundies getting more stupid/desperate?
Sounds to me like Conservapedia has now slipped into postmodernism. With luck they'll concentrate on arguing with each other ("but no innumerative potential angel could ever perform dance on the collapsing non-epistemological head of a deconstructed pin, at least in your spatial and temporal coordinates") and leave the rest of us free to enjoy life.
"the Gospels do not use the secular concept of the "past", and neither did Jesus"
Well, so much for God's omnipotence, if he can't go back in time to repair his previous fuckups, then.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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