Atheist Holdo Maneuver

When a New Atheist discovers a stale argument but serves it up like its fresh…

Reference for those who don’t catch it:

How The Last Jedi Destroyed The Continuity Of Star Wars [Storycraft]

So the concept of ships impacting things while travelling at lightspeed is indeed set-up in the Star Wars canon. Not to mention that hyperspace/lightspeed travel has been in existence for a long period of time in the Star Wars universe, so it stands to reason, due to External Consistency, that impacts of objects travelling at lightspeed have occurred before.

ZEUS & GANG VS HADES & GANG!!!

This meme inspired by the remarks at 87:20 onwards of the following:

The bottom of the meme was purposely chosen because Disney’s Hercules is where such a rivalry exists – not in actual Greek mythology.

Please don’t get your factual information from Disney cartoons.

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DR JAMES WHITE: WHAT THE QURAN SAYS ABOUT THE BIBLE BEING CORRUPTED

Dr James White is an expert in the Bible’s textual history and has debated Muslims many times.

Here he responds to a certain Malaysian, YB Zawawi, and explains that the misconception of the Bible being corrupted only became widespread when Ahmed Deedat picked it up from Western liberal skeptical scholarship.

For many centuries prior, Muslims considered the Bible to be Allah’s word and therefore preserved from corruption.

Above is a snippet of long discussion on textual study of the Bible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5naB3_rIrmc

ONLY ONE ‘RIGHT’ GOD OUT OF MANY

The top half of the following image was circulating as a dumb (probably atheist) meme, so I made the bottom half as a response.

Cold case detective J Warner Wallace debunks the bad argument using the criminal suspect analogy:

Another way to respond is the Divine Council Worldview – many gods do exist, but they are all subject to and are not The Most High, who is YHWH:

HOW DOES PRESUPPOSITIONAL APOLOGETICS DEAL WITH PEOPLE WHO KNOW THE BIBLE?

At 32:30 Matt Dillahunty mentions that he was a churchgoer for 25+ years:

And here, Tim Stratton briefly shares about a kid in his youth group who knew all the Bible’s claims but simply didn’t think they stood up to counter-evidence and opposing arguments:

The same story as above, expanded from 03:00 to 07:10:

Under a presuppositional apologetics model, how would citing more Scripturally-derived truths at them help?

DEBATE REVIEW SERIES – JAMES WHITE VS ADNAN RASHID ON THE BIBLE & QURAN

In the recent discussion about the Textus Receptus with Dr James White and Dr Stephen Boyce on Explain Apologetics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5naB3_rIrmc&t=7797s), White mentions Quranic variants that he raised during two debates with Muslims.

Here is one of them, where he debated Adnan Rashid first on the textual certainty of the Bible:

And then of the Quran:

At 28:20 – 30:30 of the second video, White raises the variant of Sura 3:158 found in the Paris manuscript of the Quran. The modern Quran assures the slain that they WILL be gathered to Allah, but the Paris manuscript says they will NOT be gathered.

At 62:20 – 64:30 White points out to the raucous Muslims in the audience how serious this variant is. It is no laughing matter to TAKBIR over. Adnan Rashid who was previously acting confident suddenly looks somber when he returns to the stage at 71:00 because he realizes White has a very weighty point.

At 72:10 – 72:50 White explains that Adnan has just tried to do TEXTUAL CRITICISM by comparing and weighing the different variants on Sura 3:158!

Note the major problem… Because Uthman (traditionally) destroyed all the Quranic manuscripts during his compilation, Muslims cannot carry out a proper and full comparative study of the Quran the way that Christians can with the Bible (thousands of Greek manuscripts, and tens of thousands of translations).

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PS. Uthman did have the chance to do a more thorough textual criticism in compiling the Quran – but he didn’t take the opportunity. Instead, he used the rudimentary criteria of ‘Quraish dialect wins’:

So I started compiling the Qur’an by collecting it from the leafless stalks of the date-palm tree and from the pieces of leather and hides and from the stones, and from the chests of men (who had memorized the Qur’an). … The manuscripts of the Qur’an remained with Abu Bakr till Allah took him unto Him. Then it remained with `Umar till Allah took him unto Him, and then with Hafsa bint `Umar. – Sahih al-Bukhari 7191, https://sunnah.com/bukhari/93/53

So `Uthman sent a message to Hafsa saying, “Send us the manuscripts of the Qur’an so that we may compile the Qur’anic materials in perfect copies and return the manuscripts to you.” Hafsa sent it to `Uthman. `Uthman then ordered Zaid bin Thabit, `Abdullah bin AzZubair, Sa`id bin Al-As and `AbdurRahman bin Harith bin Hisham to rewrite the manuscripts in perfect copies. `Uthman said to the three Quraishi men, “IN CASE YOU DISAGREE with Zaid bin Thabit on any point in the Qur’an, then write it in the dialect of Quraish, the Qur’an was revealed in their tongue.” – Sahih al-Bukhari 4987, https://sunnah.com/bukhari/66/9

DEBATE REVIEW SERIES – BUZZARD & GOODE VS WHITE & BROWN ON THE TRINITY

In this occasional series, I review a debate I have sat through in the hopes you can be encouraged to listen to it yourself.

A lively back and forth, although Sir Anthony Buzzard takes up most of the airtime on the Unitarian side after the opening presentations.

One point that Sir Anthony Buzzard likes to hammer repeatedly (in this and other debates) is that God repeatedly uses singular pronouns – ‘eleven thousand!’ times. To date, I haven’t seen anyone respond to him with all the times that plural verbs (not the ‘We’ pronoun, mind you!) are used of God. Anecdote: On the other extreme end, Mother God adherents like to hammer repeatedly the thousands of times Elohim (a plural) is used in order to show that God is multiple!

From 35:30 of the second video, one amusing part to watch out for is when Sir Anthony Buzzard claims confidently (even arrogantly!) that Psalm 110:1 uses Adoni for the second Lord, which ‘always’ means a human. In response, around 37:50 Dr James White takes out a photocopy of a Dead Sea Scroll which shows that the word in Psalm 110:1 is Adonai. The point being, it is the Masoretic Text centuries later (and with likely anti-Christian slant) which added vowel pointing to make the word become Adoni. Buzzard has a totally stunned look as he examines the paper.

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Inconsistent Secular Renaming of Calendar Year Markers

I continue to use A.D. & B.C. as a matter of principle. None of this C.E. & B.C.E. half-hearted obscurationist nonsense, the date is still fixed to the same event – changing the terminology does nothing!

If secularists were consistent they would also rename the days of the week from Tyr’s Day, (W)Odin’s Day, Thor’s Day, Freya Day and Saturn Day.

And the months of the year from Janus-ary, Mars-ch, Aphrodite-il, Maia-y, Juno and Augustus (burn incense to the god-emperor!).

And of course, the majority of celestial objects – a tiny sampling being Venus, Mars, Neptune, Orion and Andromeda. And don’t even start on ‘Mother Gaia’!

(Oh, but those things aren’t to do with Christianity, so it’s fine to leave them untouched.)

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