I was hoping that you would take a hint from the quality of the ridicule, but apparently you’re hell bent on displaying proof that irrational and dishonest behaviour is the hallmark of the Christian fanatic.

First, please stop repeating the lie/distortion about Josephus. Anyone who has given the history more than a cursory once over knows that Josephus recorded one incredibly small bit of third hand observation. He wrote down what he was told the Christians did/believed. Period.

There are no contemporaneous accounts of the existence of Jesus. The evidence that Jesus existed is identical to the evidence that Thor, Ganesha and Batman existed: someone who never met those characters talked about them in a book.

Yes, the OT teaches you what rules you should obey. Apparently you’re unaware that the NT does too. What did the Jesus character say? Something about not one iota of the law…? Maybe you should actually read the book?

And what laws does the OT present? Laws that Christians pick and and choose from regardless of their appearance in the magic book. For instance, when was the last time you killed an adulterous pair? A homosexual? When was the last time you ate shellfish? How can you reconcile this horrible ban on slavery when the Jesus character went out of his way to make sure it was known that Christian slaves must obey their master even if their master isn’t Christian, and that daughters can legitimately be sold into slavery?

Here’s the question that Christians are invariably unable to answer honestly: what specific characteristic uniquely distinguishes the bible from all the other books about gods/devils/angels/faeries/superheroes?

Their inability to plainly answer that question speaks volumes about their thought processes (or lack thereof) I can pick up any science and book and explain in simple terms the reasons the book should be taken seriously, yet those books don’t contain clear instructions on how and when murder, rape, slavery, infanticide and genocide are appropriate.

Christians on the other hand want people to take the rules about killing, rape and slavery completely seriously without being able to give a reason why the book should be followed. Pat Robertson is not out of line here, he’s very much on message: do what the gods inspire you to do, say what they inspire you to say. Be tolerant of his beliefs! Noah, one of the great heroes of Christian traditions, is revered for doing just that. Abraham is revered for being willing to commit infanticide for his gods regardless of what other humans might thing of a shitbag who was willing to murder his own children based on telepathically transmitted orders from an invisible wizard.

I find it interesting that you choose only to focus on my entirely correct use of the term ‘wizard’ yet you found no objection in the basic story itself. That’s good because it is an accurate description of Christianity. My description of the perfect spread of the curse of original sin, and my description of the incredibly inept method of handing down the secret of the cure for the curse is also accurate.

Instead of addressing how irrational the Christian narrative of events is, you choose not only to ignore the 1/3 of your magic wizard that was corporeal, you also deny the Old Testament. Surely you haven’t forgotten that your god walked on the Earth and wrestled with Jacob in Genesis 23:24?

Regarding your last fallacy (lie/distortion) I believe you haven’t cited any specific piece of “lots of evidence” for the exodus is because there is none. Doesn’t the OT put a prohibition on telling lies? It’s one of the better known flaws in the biblical account of history.

Like most atheists, I know the bible extremely well. I’ve also spent four decades now challenging Christians to think rationally about their magic book. I’m coming up on 30 years of presenting those challenges online (yes, since USENET days) Based on that experience, I can say that Pat Robertson is the ultimate Christian, in the same way that the 9/11 hijackers were the ultimate Muslims. None of them have any concern for their own lives, the lives of others. What matters is what their gods instructed them to do.

Whether it’s destroying the lives of non-believers in the immediate sense like the Saudis who crashed the planes, or killing non-believers in the indirect sense as Robertson advocates by banning reproductive health care, contraception, and passing laws in Africa that call for the death penalty for homosexual acts, they all follow their faiths to the letter.

As for my “bigotry”, why are you so intolerant of other beliefs? Why don’t you simply tolerate the beliefs of those Saudis who crashed the planes into those buildings? Why don’t you just tolerate the beliefs of paedophiles? Leave them alone, their beliefs aren’t hurting you, are they?

Picture this: You’re in a small, very crowded room standing shoulder to shoulder with 100 other people. There’s one small hose that lets the air into the room so that everyone can breathe. There’s some fat, stupid guy who doesn’t believe that air is needed so survive, so he’s standing on the hose and cutting off the air to everyone. He has absolute faith that his gods will provide what he needs.

His gods name are Mickey, Minnie and Goofy.

Do you advise being tolerant of his beliefs?

Welcome to planet Earth in the 21st century. We’ve got overpopulation, rapidly dwindling resources, a climate that may go catastrophically wrong in the next few decades/centuries, we’ve got massive wars by Christians in the name of oil, we’ve got a Christian government that can’t be bothered to even bring up the subject of regulating hazardous material manufacturing and storage facilities located right next to schools and hospitals because they’re far too busy trying to pass laws codifying biblical laws against homosexuals being allowed to love and marry.

There is one pipe delivering the vital supply of rational thought and science that provides the only hope for addressing these real life-or-death issues.

The fat, dumbfuck Christians are standing on that pipe. They’re molesting children by stuffing their heads with irrational beliefs that not only won’t help those children survive, but will actually prevent or delay those kids from even realizing that rational action is desperately needed. The Christians have absolute faith that Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, the father, the son and that wild and wacky “holy ghost” are going to magically act in the supernatural world and have some measurable effect in the natural world, to magically save us from our own actions.

You molest children’s minds. You cause endless misery and suffering to the human race (today and in the future) by your continued insistence that the supernatural world is real. It’s the 21st century. It is time for rational adults to think for themselves and reason out what is right and what is wrong and how best to implement fair and equitable laws and pursuits. It’s the 21st century. The inherent evil of Christian moral relativism should not be tolerated any longer simply because humans as a species cannot afford to tolerate such primitive ideas and expect to survive into the 22nd or 23rd centuries.

Call me bigoted, but there are moral absolutes, in spite of what Christians believe about supernatural beings and worlds.

In short, you’re fat, you’re stupid, and you’re standing on my air hose. Don’t expect me to expire quietly while you stand there stupidly unconcerned in your state of blissed out ignorance. Get the fuck off the hose.