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This question is put to Christians who believe that the Bible unerringly describes God and reports the commands and the characteristics of God. If there is a God, it is natural that we should wish to be quite correct in our understanding of that God's nature. So, we ask: Can and does God lie? Looking this point up in the mazes of Holy Writ, we discover confusion. In Numbers xxiii, 19, we are told: "God is not a man, that he should lie." This is put even mere strongly in Hebrews vi, 18, where we read: "It was impossible for God to lie." But do these citations settle the matter? Ah, no, we are upset in, our calculations the moment we turn to 2 Thessalonians ii, 11, where we read: "For this cause God shall send them strong delusions, that they should believe a lie." And in I Kings xxii, 23, God is thus reported: "Now, therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee." Can God lie? Can the Bible lie? Anyway, there is a mistake somewhere. The big mistake is in entertaining the idea of a God.
[E. Haldeman-Julius, "The Meaning Of Atheism"]
March 29, 2008
Category: Religion
…but there is a good argument against it: many religions are sickening. Wow, that set you guys on fire. Just to clarify: I think Wilders is a flaming nutcase; I deplore his racist angle and his desire to exclude and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:41 PM • 318 Comments •
Category: Creationism
Sometimes, people wonder if criticizing creationists brings more attention to them than they deserve — it's a weird dynamic on the web, where we measure popularity by traffic (unfortunately), so referencing the bad guys sends them traffic, which seems to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:39 PM • 89 Comments •
Category: Carnivals
The next Tangled Bank will be at Further Thoughts on 2 April — it's time to send those links in to me or host@tangledbank.net. Meanwhile, get inspired to write some Tangled Bank-worthy posts by reading these fine carnivals. The...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:16 PM • 25 Comments •
Category: Humor
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March 28, 2008
Category: Humor
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:12 PM • 491 Comments •
Category: Creationism
I have to make this really, really simple for the "Hitler was an evolutionist" dimwits. There is a central, incredibly obvious fact in Darwin's insight. If members of a population die or are killed off, they will leave no...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:48 PM • 191 Comments •
Category: Creationism
Some of you know that the producers of Expelled had a conference call this afternoon…a carefully controlled, closed environment in which they would spout their nonsense and only take questions by email. I listened to it for a while, and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:45 PM • 503 Comments •
Category: Humor
I'm writing this at an altitude of 37,000 feet, 7 miles up in the air. Now I'm not really afraid of flying — I am entirely confident that I'll be able to post this sometime after I land — but...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:05 PM • 100 Comments •
Category: Cephalopods
This video definitively settles that question....
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:09 AM • 54 Comments •
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