Sunday, August 2, 2009

The Stupidest Thing

I've just got done reading a chapter of the Christian Apologist JP Holding's "Trusting the New Testament".

He argues that Jesus didn't leave behind any of his own writing because paper was too expensive. Sounds plausible, until you remember that Holding believes Jesus was the FUCKING SON OF GOD!!!

Damn, the guy can come back from the dead but he can't create a scroll from thin air along with a quill that writes what you dictate like they have on Harry Potter?

Holding's argument only works if you're convinced that Jesus was an ordinary person with no magic powers and no claim to divinity whatsoever. And if you take away that, Holding wouldn't even be writing his book. He is just dumber than a sack of hammers.

4 comments:

Robert Morane said...

I agree. After all, Jesus is believed to have turned water into wine...

Cathy said...

Just because some Christian writers say stupid things and don't think through what they are writing (a real frustration to me), does not justify your blatant disrespect for God. Jesus could have gotten off the cross, but He chose not to. Jesus could have written about Himself, but He chose to have His story told by fishermen mainly. Jesus did nothing in the way expected by the religious or secular folks of His day. What I think is sad is that the same arrogance or foolishness that you accuse the Christian writers of using, you yourself use in your writing. A true examination of all possibilities and a willingness to think and discourse is healthy for all individuals - whichever side they fall on. Sad all you can do is mock others.

Steven Carr said...

Other people managed to leave behind the Copper Scroll.

If only Jesus hadn't blown the gold he got when he was born on drink and women...


He was probably broke after paying for all those pigs he sent the demons into....


As for mocking God, what is this imaginary god going to do? Stick pins in voodoo dolls of us? I am SO scared.

Stephan Huller said...

I just had a run in with this J P Holding character. He wrote a 'review' of my new book which rejects the traditional model for early Christian origins. Anyway, he's an idiot and I mean that in a sincere way strangely enough. Some people just call anyone they don't like an idiot. I really mean it. I think he is an idiot with a lot of spare time.

Any way just dropping by to say hi