tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post3370284162825048155..comments2023-05-02T23:19:12.706+10:00Comments on Armarium Magnum: ApologiesTim O'Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00292944444808847980noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-87331851129295602532011-03-26T09:31:32.764+11:002011-03-26T09:31:32.764+11:00Great blog Tim!
I am an atheist but was a believi...Great blog Tim!<br /><br />I am an atheist but was a believing Roman Catholic until my late teens.<br /><br />From my experience as an atheist, there is clearly a segment of atheists (which once included myself) that not only sees the Christian religion as being factually wrong, but is also to blame for things like the collapse of the Roman Empire, causing the Dark Ages and so forth. So, when Tommykeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14751182125861177379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-40163276396012885402011-03-15T06:11:59.756+11:002011-03-15T06:11:59.756+11:00I would be interested in getting your review of ar...<i>I would be interested in getting your review of arecent article posted at historyhuntersinternational entitled "The vacuum of evidence for pre-4th century Christianity"</i><br /><br />I was talking it reasonably serious until I got to the bit where he says the Codex Vaticanus uses the abbreviation "XC" instead of writing the word "christos" so it isn't Tim O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00292944444808847980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-46872767598300369112011-03-14T22:51:25.922+11:002011-03-14T22:51:25.922+11:00Hi Tim,
I would be interested in getting your rev...Hi Tim,<br /><br />I would be interested in getting your review of arecent article posted at historyhuntersinternational entitled "The vacuum of evidence for pre-4th century Christianity"<br /><br />URL = http://historyhuntersinternational.org/2011/03/06/the-vacuum-of-evidence-for-pre-4th-century-christianity/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-8797850589774999702011-03-13T06:16:51.868+11:002011-03-13T06:16:51.868+11:00Hans,
I'm not interested in using the comment...Hans,<br /><br />I'm not interested in using the comments section of an incidental post on my blog to have a debate with you about the truth or otherwise of Christianity or any other religion. If you want to preach to atheists, you can do it somewhere else. I've heard it all before pal. Further posts preaching your faith will not be published.<br /><br />TimTim O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00292944444808847980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-15349223164163260782011-03-12T23:32:33.134+11:002011-03-12T23:32:33.134+11:00@ Duke of Earl:
Re: "I have little idea on h...@ Duke of Earl:<br /><br />Re: "I have little idea on his views on various parts of the Bible. If I wanted to know them, I'd ask."<br /><br />Well, to my rhetoric sensibility posting a statement like "how doctrinaire vegetarians like G B Shaw account for children universally liking chicken" on the blog of G B Shaw amonts to asking G B Shaw how he accounts for the fact thatHans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-37219756242210242882011-03-12T06:14:53.018+11:002011-03-12T06:14:53.018+11:00@Hans
It is always best to let people speak for t...@Hans<br /><br />It is always best to let people speak for themselves. Attributing positions to them, especially those they don't hold, is extremely bad form.<br /><br />I know Tim is not a Christian, I have little idea on his views on various parts of the Bible. If I wanted to know them, I'd ask.<br /><br />What I do know is that Tim loves truth, and he applies that to his study of Duke of Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14891442161634560912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-69128340650273334322011-02-21T22:46:08.072+11:002011-02-21T22:46:08.072+11:00New Testament has eight authors
We actually have ...<i>New Testament has eight authors</i><br /><br />We actually have no definitive idea who wrote any of the books of the NT, particularly the ones which make no claim to authorship. Paul probably wrote at least some of the ones attributed to him but beyond that we're guessing. You're assuming rather too much.<br /><br /><i><br />How atheists - including Tim O'Neill - explain the Tim O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00292944444808847980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-73932052137824572432011-02-21T22:28:42.556+11:002011-02-21T22:28:42.556+11:00New Testament has eight authors, three of whom did...New Testament has eight authors, three of whom did not necessarily meet him and were not his disciples while he lived on earth.<br /><br />Two of these are St Paul and St Luke. The latter is disciple of the former and says he was passively adhering to the stoning of another disciple, St Stephen.<br /><br />How atheists - including Tim O'Neill - explain the scene when St Luke met St Paul - it Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-61910479475385566882011-02-21T20:43:03.165+11:002011-02-21T20:43:03.165+11:00Doherty is responding to GDons critique. The first...Doherty is responding to GDons critique. The first installment is posted at freeratio.org<br /><br />Doherty has addressed GDon before, in detail. You can find it on jesuspuzzle.comkilo papahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15112057471953902453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-17826618676627370872011-02-21T10:01:48.299+11:002011-02-21T10:01:48.299+11:00I read portions of Doherty's book on Paul, the...I read portions of Doherty's book on Paul, the Gospel of John and Hebrews. He claims that everything in these writings which appears to us to have taken place on earth was in fact being described as taking place in some lower level of the spiritual realm.<br /><br />My impression was that none of the allegedly parallel literature referenced supports Doherty's claim that this was a mode Neil Parillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11074901258306769278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-46593251265941908462011-02-21T06:44:29.307+11:002011-02-21T06:44:29.307+11:00You can find a comprehensive critique of Doherty&#...You can find a comprehensive critique of Doherty's book <a href="http://members.optusnet.com.au/gakuseidon/JNGNM_Review1.html" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>. It seems it has the same flaws as his earlier stuff.Tim O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00292944444808847980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-56766587775049224092011-02-21T01:33:40.825+11:002011-02-21T01:33:40.825+11:00I purchased Doherty's 800 page behemoth Jesus:...I purchased Doherty's 800 page behemoth Jesus: Neither God nor Man.<br /><br />I'm not that familiar with the mythicist position, but it seems extreme from what I can tell. Doherty doesn't think Paul or the Gospel writers believed Jesus lived in earth.Neil Parillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11074901258306769278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-3671693022880855922011-02-19T06:11:01.637+11:002011-02-19T06:11:01.637+11:00Welcome back, Mr. O'Neill! I find this site il...Welcome back, Mr. O'Neill! I find this site illuminating and useful, and have been looking forward to the resumption of your posts.Stevo Darklynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-8953280574334015272011-02-15T20:45:44.515+11:002011-02-15T20:45:44.515+11:00About "Nailed", I am subscribed to his c...About "Nailed", I am subscribed to his colleague Acharya, and one of her book titles provoked me to <a href="http://o-x.fr/xbbf" rel="nofollow">this</a> answer.Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-86592717735661324822011-02-14T10:52:08.323+11:002011-02-14T10:52:08.323+11:00"I recently looked at the key-words people us..."I recently looked at the key-words people use to get to this blog and found someone had come here by typing "Tim O'Neill"+"is really a Christian" into Google. Nice try, idiot."<br /><br />For those of us who have known you for some time now (at least from behind a keyboard), it really is idiotic.The Rabbihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16326266051375680796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-30189175282731484802011-02-09T08:29:04.875+11:002011-02-09T08:29:04.875+11:00I am actually really looking forward to the review...I am actually really looking forward to the review of "Nailed". I don't really know anything about the history of that era, when someone sent me the pdf of Nailed, it seemed plausible to me, so I would be interested in a methodical response. I guess this makes me an "empty head", though I prefer to think of myself as someone willing to learn. :-/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-6304529854104017382011-02-05T04:37:46.091+11:002011-02-05T04:37:46.091+11:00I think reviewing a book that claims Jesus never e...I think reviewing a book that claims Jesus never existed is definitely worthwhile, especially when it is being trumpeted as "the best 'capsule summary' of the mythist case I've ever encountered" by prominent myther Earl Doherty and boosted by Richard Carrier.<br /><br />I didn't pay much attention to these people until a few years ago, since I regarded mythers as being Tim O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00292944444808847980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-26091247606845891082011-02-05T01:14:37.961+11:002011-02-05T01:14:37.961+11:00I dont know McB, from my prespective I think Tim j...I dont know McB, from my prespective I think Tim just waste his valuable and limited time. He is better than trying to knock some sense on empty heads, I mean what's the point for pointing if Jesus existed or not?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-39783898922250372212011-02-04T12:25:33.379+11:002011-02-04T12:25:33.379+11:00I look forward to your review of Nailed. I find it...I look forward to your review of Nailed. I find it more interesting reading criticisms of atheist ideas from atheists themselves, criticisms of Christianity from Christians etc, so I look forward to what you have to say.McBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-25315881769270123112011-02-03T09:47:42.906+11:002011-02-03T09:47:42.906+11:00"I would appreciate some suggestions and guid..."I would appreciate some suggestions and guidance."<br /><br />Sorry, but I'm strictly an ancient and medieval history guy. I have read on some subjects beyond 1500, some more than others, but would hesitate to write any reviews on anything I haven't studied extensively. Indian history is one area I know very little about.Tim O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00292944444808847980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-20609321366350259072011-02-02T23:59:05.477+11:002011-02-02T23:59:05.477+11:00Incidentally, regarding your poll can I suggest so...Incidentally, regarding your poll can I suggest something completely different.<br /><br />Over the years I've read dozens of articles and a few books concerning the history of India during the years between the Muslim "invasion" and the East India company. This is a highly controversial area, which is why I used the quotes around invasion, (not because I hold a particular view).<brAnon1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-69474400381870784722011-01-27T18:26:31.844+11:002011-01-27T18:26:31.844+11:00I don't see why you have to apologize.
Anyway,...I don't see why you have to apologize.<br />Anyway, maybe you'll like that:<br /><br />http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/file/Posner.pdfclaudiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08867207336478957331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-69975555268342672132011-01-26T07:25:12.823+11:002011-01-26T07:25:12.823+11:00Really great to see you still out and about! Havin...Really great to see you still out and about! Having just recently read it myself, I'd be interested in what you think of the historical argument of the Leithart book.Brandonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06698839146562734910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-36175191663866594522011-01-24T21:56:01.164+11:002011-01-24T21:56:01.164+11:00I popped over to Amazon to read the reviews. Golly...I popped over to Amazon to read the reviews. Golly! Most people seem to swallow the story whole. No scepticism allowed on his thesis, it appears. At least the publisher (Lulu) is appropriate. <br /><br />And look at the titles bought by people who read the book. It looks as though he is only preaching to the choir. And don't they appear to hate Christianity.<br /><br />I like your reviews. I tolkeinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-70392950627779298382011-01-24T13:53:01.061+11:002011-01-24T13:53:01.061+11:00Just found your site. Read three of your reviews....Just found your site. Read three of your reviews. Now, I'm hooked! You gots yourself another reader.MikeGenenoreply@blogger.com