Giant Infographic Covers Over 70 Years Of Batman History
Monday, August 20, 2012
Faceplant of the Day - Debunking Christianity: Who goes to heaven? Who goes to hell?
If Christianity is true, then reaching the correct belief (about Jesus) is necessary to avoid damnation. Here is a brief video highlighting one of the more unpleasant implications of Christian theology. Admittedly it is not a logical argument, however since most believers tend to believe for emotional reasons, bringing up issues like this can be very effective at "putting cracks in the shell" of faith.
Here is the main problem: the assumption that some people deserve to go to heaven and others deserve to go to hell. People think that just because they haven't raped or murdered someone or broke into someone's own house and stole their property illegally that they are better than other people who have done things that they would not do themselves. They think that if there is a God their standard of morality is good enough to warrant their right to be in heaven. It's not. God's standard is not just moral..it is Holy. Not one of us measures up! This is why we we can only be in heaven through Christ. You might not be a serial killer....but we are all serial sinners. I agree with all the scriptures in the video. We are only saved through Christ. However I can't look at anyone's life and gauge with absolute certainty whether or not they have given their life in Christ or if they ever will become born-again. I don't know what the 15 year-old girl's relationship with Christ was. If she didn't have one, she didn't make it. Same with her killer. I deserve hell just as much as he does. If God saves him, why should I be angry with God? He takes sinners and makes them better - transforms them from evil doers to good doers.
One of the comments on the post really cracked me up!
So did the thief on the cross. If God chose to save them what is the problem? I think it's a bigger problem for you if they end up in heaven with you in hell - all because they humbled themselves and accepted Jesus but you rejected Jesus. That's a really stupid reason to miss heaven just because you don't like who might be there.
Debunking Christianity: Who goes to heaven? Who goes to hell?
Friday, August 17, 2012
50 Years Later: Growth And Maturity in Amazing Spider-Man 1-50 - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
50 Years Later: Growth And Maturity in Amazing Spider-Man 1-50 - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
Thursday, August 16, 2012
FacePlant of the Day - A Really Bad Pro-Homosexual Argument! that Twists the Bible.
On Tuesday, Dr James White responded to an argument that's becoming quite popular in which people try to suggest that Jesus condoned homosexuality because he healed the young gay lover of a Roman Centurion. They base this farce on Matthew 8 and Luke 7. They want to argue that the one Jesus healed was not the Centurion servant but the centurion's gay lover. They go as far as saying that the Greek word "pais" does not mean "servant" but "lover". Such an argument can't hold together, and Dr White truly shows how this "reasoning" is really a fail.Here is a link to the original article by Jay Michaelson: Link
Today on the Dividing Line: A Bunch of Really Bad Arguments on Very Different Topics
We're NASA and We Know It (Mars Curiosity) - YouTube
Lyrics
When I EDL, time for seven minutes of flamin' hell
Rover's touchin' down
everybody passin' peanuts around, yeah
We're at mission control, getting full use outta ev-er-y Sol (wa!)
Just 25 feet left to go
It's Curiosity, look out below (yo)
Crane lower that rover (ah)
Crane lower that rover (ah)
Crane lower that rover (ah)
N-N-N-Now bug out!
Crane lower that rover
Crane lower that rove
Crane lower that rover
Now bug out!
Kickin' it at my con(sole), this is what I see (okay)
Data streaming back from curiosity
I got stars on my 'hawk
and I ain't afraid to show it (show it, show it, show it)
We're NASA and we know it
We're NASA and we know it
(Yo)
When I look for ice, gotta calibrate, gotta be precise
And when I raise the mast, panoramic views are unsurpassed (wha?)
This is how I rove, baking red rocks in my nuclear stove
We headed to the peak, with my laser eye
No one to bury me when it's time to die (ow!)
Crane lower that rover
Crane lower that rover
Crane lower that rover
Now bug out!
Crane lower that rover
Crane lower that rover
Crane lower that rover
Now bug out!
Shoutout to Carl the Sage (and) Neil Degrasse T (B.A.!)
Shoutout to JPL and the Rocker-Bogie
We're better than SpaceX
And we ain't afraid to show it (show it, show it, show it)
We're NASA and we know it
We're NASA and we know it
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
People Who Think Like Scientists
People Who Think Like Scientists
Monday, August 13, 2012
How to Brand Yourself [infographic]
How to Brand Yourself [infographic]: An infographic on cleaning your image up on the internet.
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Sunday, August 12, 2012
UPdate: A Reply to "So You Still Think Homosexuality is Sinful"
A Reply to "So You Still Think Homosexuality is Sinful"
UPDATE:
Dr James White has weighed in on the graphic on his Dividing Line webcast August 16, 2012.
Covered a bunch of stuff, starting off examining this really bad pro-homosexual argument, discussed a little about the LGBT terrorist in Washington, D.C., and then discussed the appearance of non-Trinitarian singing group PC&D at a local church (Scottsdale Bible Church) and the very odd response from the "Worship and Creative Arts Pastor" of the church. Then we moved back to examining Paul Williams' comments and, quite honestly, abuse of the biblical text, in the recent debate in London. Here's the program.
A Wide Ranging Dividing Line Today
Saturday, August 11, 2012
FacePlant of the Day - Debunking Christianity: Paul Tells Us in His Last Letter (Romans) That God Has Alzheimer’s Disease
Paul tells us in his letter to the Romans that "Jesus is at the right hand of God interceding for us" (ἐντυγχάνει ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν = Present Indicative or to keep doing intercession for us) in Heaven. (Romans 8:34, NIV)
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died —more than that, who was raised to life —is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
It's interesting how McCall feels the need to rip verse 34 out of its context. Notice how Paul is talking about believers on earth now being interceded by Jesus. McCall is going to try to make it seem that Paul is talking about judgement day and not the here and now.
Yet, even with all this pleading by Jesus, Romans 14:12 tells us that each person is going to have to step up and “will give account to God” (δώσει τῷ Θεῷ = Future Indicative Active) or we must tell God exactly what sins we did.
10 You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister[a]? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. 11 It is written:
“‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will acknowledge God.’”[b]
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will acknowledge God.’”[b]
12 So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.
13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. - Romans 14:10-13
Nowhere does the text say we will be telling God exactly what sins we did. Besides we don't even know all the sins we have done. Giving "an account of ourselves" before God does not mean confessing our sins. God already knows what they are.
If we take the Bible seriously; we have an image of "Jesus being presently at the right hand of God interceding for us" in Heaven with the following scenario on how this action is playing out.
Intercession does not mean God needs to be reminded about his mercy and kindness.
So according to St. Paul, as each Christians commits a sin (based on both the Jewish Torah as well as the New Testament) we have this scene in Heaven:
God: "Sinner, you stand condemned!"
Jesus: "You must forgive him father for I died and shed my blood for him!"
God: "Oh, yeah, I remember now. O.K. But what about that other sinning Christian right there?”
Jesus: "Forgive her father. I died and shed my blood for her too!"
God: "Oh, yeah, I remember now. O.K."
God: “But what about that person right over there?”
And again, God try’s to condemn a sinner and yet again, Jesus intercedes for them by pleading his blood as shed on the cross.
Jesus, now after 2,000 years and for the googolplex time: "Forgive him father. I died for him / her!"
And God for the googolplex time: "Oh yeah! Now I remember . . . O.K: Forgiven!"
Ironically, it’s little wonder neither God nor Jesus has time to answer prayers since both are in an eternal Catch-22 Situation; one of eternal condemning and interceding.
Shows how much McCall does not understand anything bout the Father's relationship to Jesus. Jesus' sacrifice wasn't for those like him who reject Jesus but only for those who put their trust in Jesus. If Jesus did not die for you and raised for your justification (see Romans 8) you will be judged according to your own righteousness. Jesus did not die for everyone. Jesus died for those who were given him by the Father.
35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
41 At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”
43 “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. 44 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’[d] Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. 46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. 47 Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. 50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” - John 6:35-51Finally, here’s how salvation sounds in Heaven (at least to the angles).
God: "Baugh, Baugh, Baugh; Condemed!"
Jesus: "Baugh, Baugh, Baugh."
God: "Baugh, Baugh, Baugh: O.K. Forgiven!"
I think that the angels are definitely more understanding of salvation than McCall is.
F-O-R-E-V-E-R!
{As for as Romans14: 12 is concerned (with God being as forgetful as he is), I plan to lie and march myself right on into Heaven!}
Harry McCall
McCall attempts to debunk what the Bible says about Salvation but fails to accurately understand what it says about salvation. A God who knows the number of hairs on your head surely knows how many sins you have committed.
Jesus said:
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.[a] 30 And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. - Matthew 10:29-31
Given that there are sins of ignorance that we are all guilty of we don't even know all the sins we have done - but God does.
9 The heart is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?
and examine the mind,
to reward each person according to their conduct,
according to what their deeds deserve.”- Jeremiah 17:9-10
Debunking Christianity: Paul Tells Us in His Last Letter (Romans) That God Has Alzheimer’s Disease
The Many Looks of Spiderman Over the Past 50 Years [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Many Looks of Spiderman Over the Past 50 Years [INFOGRAPHIC]
Friday, August 10, 2012
FacePalm of the Day - Debunking Christianity: Solomon's Decision Was the Dumbest Judicial Ruling in History
We all know the story told in I Kings 3. Solomon was given wisdom by God more than anyone else. To show us how wise he was Solomon issued a ruling involving two prostitutes who both claimed a particular baby was theirs. To settle the matter Solomon ordered that the child be cut in two, with each woman receiving half of him. This is supposed to be considered wise. I demurr. I think it was the dumbest judicial ruling in history, well, at least one of them. Here's why.
So let's look at what the Bible says that happened. Loftus makes it look like Solomon decides to cut the baby in half because he can't decide whose the baby's mother is. IF this was true, then maybe Loftus has a point. But before pulling the string revealing just how whacked Loftus' reasoning really is, let's see how he tried to develop his "point.
Just imagine Solomon’s so-called “wise” judgment in our day in a courtroom situation in a divorce child custody case.
How is a child custody case in a courtroom in anyway like the scenario in the Bible? In cases involving custody of children, the court knows the relationship of the people who are vying for custody to the child in question. And today with DNA, birth certificates, and all the documentation around today, it's almost impossible to not to be able to tell a child's parentage. In this case, Solomon was looking for the identity of the baby's mother given that two women claimed to be the baby's mother.
Given that people abort children without shame or conscious then maybe today both mothers could have an "as-long-as-she-doesn't-have-him "attitude, but I doubt it. I would think that a woman who goes through pregnancy and birth would so cavalierly give up her child. I mean there is that pesky little quality we call love. Even after 3000 years, I wouldn't count motherly love out. Solomon was wise enough not to ignore mothely love as a motivation for human action even if Loftus misses it.
Even the real mother might have wanted the child killed rather than have it raised by such a lying conniving pretender/thief.
Why? Why would not a mother love her child so much that she would rather see him live than die.
If this had happened then the child would have been killed since that’s what Solomon said, and he could not back out of it, could he? Any civilized judge issuing such a judgment would be thrown out of the country it’s so utterly repulsive. It’s actually the dumbest ruling that was ever made.
I think the dumbest thing is that Loftus doesn't see that Solomon was wise enough to see that the real mother would love her son so much that she'd rather live without him than die. Don't forget that love is about sacrifice.
Unlike John Loftus, some atheists are honest. While I disagree with the conclusion the commenter draws on the Bible, he at least correctly states what the Bible does say..
Solomon was wise enough to know that in the situation he orchestrated he would not have to kill the baby because her knew the baby's mother would rather give him up than for him to die. It's nice to see that a person can be honest with the Bible although they don't believe it. As of posting this, I have not seen any response from Loftus. I hope that he's own up and just apologize for his blunder. Not sure if he's wise enough to see that.
Debunking Christianity: Solomon's Decision Was the Dumbest Judicial Ruling in History
The 10 Smartest People Alive Today
Source: SuperScholar.org
Take a few minutes and think about what intelligence is and how you measure it? Bow ask: Is that how you would think God would define it?
The 10 Smartest People Alive Today
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Neo video games: mind controlled or mind control? - National Worldview and Science | Examiner.com
Read Mariano's article here:
Neo video games: mind controlled or mind control? - National Worldview and Science | Examiner.com
And watch the short film I referenced here:
If you would like to know more about Google Glass check out this link and videos.
Project Glass: what you need to know
First Known Use Of OMG In Letter To Winston Churchill (PHOTO)
First Known Use Of OMG In Letter To Winston Churchill (PHOTO)
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