Mr. Deering is a Freakin' GENIUS!

I want to welcome j. deering, our BLOG reader, who has been posting absolutely brilliant comments here lately! You dumb Christians should take this as a model for how to conduct your miserable, pathetic lives, and should read HIS blog too!

For example, check the awesome latest entry, “Irish Farmer clings desperately to the Myth of Jesus”! Remember, folks, using the word “desperate” or one of its permutations is critical to refuting those dumb fundies! Let’s sit back though and let good old jd expulcate on this subject:

After reading his response to my comments, (see https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14398630&postID=5816237712154389446) it is obvious that the Irish Farmer has closed out both his mind and his options, desperately clinging to the hope of Christianity like a drowning man in a sea of existential waves he doesn't think he'd survive if he let go and swam for it on his own.

Yeah, you go, jd! I mean, just LOOK at some of these desperate things Irish Farmer said, the poor sap. He had the nerve to ask jd for a REFERENCE for one of his claims! Isn’t that such gall??? He even went so far as to ask jd to back up all of his claims! How dare he question a man of such obvious erudtion and scholarship!

When a Christian demands that you document your claims – congratulations! They’re obviously stunned into not being able to answer!

Let me tell ya, folks: I’ve been really, really enjoying reading mr. deering’s blog because it is just so obvious that this man has spanked the bare butt of Christianity with his paddle of reason. I mean, just look at this work of genius from one of his more recent entries:

It's as easy as saying "There's nothing new under the sun", a statement that you would probably agree with except for Christianity it seems. That is called exceptionalism and it is a falsehood to believe that what is didn’t come from what was, which produces what will be.

You preach it, bro. deering! And don’t let any Christian ever tell you that Eccl. 1:9 is in the genre of proverbial (non-absolute) literature. That’s all just a bunch of made up horse crap! If God wanted it clear that Ecclesiates was full of proverbial statements, he/she/it could have implanted knowledge of ancient literary genres in our minds from birth! The fact that he/she/it didn’t proves that we should take Eccl. 1:9 with 100% universal literalness and apply it as specifically as possible! (In other words, for example, Jesus wore sandals not because it was common footwear of the day, but because Moses wore sandals and the stupid Christians were just creating Jesus out of the imaginations using Moses as one of their templates!)

It is both logical and reasonable to believe that Christianity incorporated the beliefs of older faiths as it grew and established itself. It also happens to be true...

YES! Precisely! You don’t need to give examples, or historically justify them; it is more than sufficient to say it is both logical and reasonable and true, because it is! Logic and reason said, it, I believe it, that settles it!

How do we know that Judaism isn't the oldest religion? Because we do. Christianity is a teenager by comparison to Hinduism. If Paganism borrowed from Judaism, that would not be a shock, since we know that Christianity borrowed from Paganism and is built upon the beliefs of ancient Jews, with some present-day Jews even believing that Yeshua actually is the Messiah, and yet they are Jews, not Christians.

Way to go, mr. deering! This is pure, unadulterated genius from the top of the toilet tank! The mere fact that there are older religions clearly proves that they were borrowed from! And once again, the absolute brilliance of mr. deering’s straightforward assertions (“we know” – how? Because we do, that’s why!) leaves me hyperventiliating! This is exciting stuff! We may need to invite mr. deering to post here with us!

The fact that newer faiths are built upon the beliefs of other earlier faiths is without controversy. That is just human history. Yeshua wasn't born on December 25th, the chances of that being 364 to 1 against, but it's a good day to celebrate the birthday of a person when no one actually knows what his actual birthday was. That is life by approximation and that is how people create and advance religious beliefs.

That’s right! It’s very clear that the use of December 25^th proves that everything else was borrowed or made up too – whatever it was! Right, mr. deering? You Einstein, you, gimme a big fat kiss!

Try this one for size and see how it fits: Yeshua was a Jew. His Jewish upbringing, culture, and beliefs helped form how he understood the world and what he taught about it. He did not base his beliefs on a vacuum or something entirely different from what he knew and had been taught. He was a product of his day just as you are of yours. There is nothing new under the sun, even Christianity. Without a link to its Jewish roots, your faith would be incomprehensible…

Yes sir! I mean, I just love the depth and specificity of mr. deering’s analysis! If I had known about this stuff 10 years ago, I would have deconverted a lot sooner! mr. deering, where were you when I needed you???