Conversations with Jesus (Ce 2017): A Disingenuous Bastard and Yahweh/God’S Only Son Begotten by Rape

By H. G. Hastings–Duffield

Do the two utterances say the same thing? Think about it and all the other differences in bibles alleged to be the Bible. Should such issues generate any doubts in Christians about the verity of the God for whom they sacrifice their real life for a fairy tale one? Do they forego the myriad of errors in whatever Bible they use? If they do, can they be sure that the God they serve as mere sycophants actually exists and is deserving of their praise?

Christians need to develop concrete evidence for their convictions. They do not know a single fact about their god. The only thing that mere faith and belief prove is a persons failure to use his/her intellect. Case in point: for any conscious human to believe that a virgin child can birth is evidence that that person is mentally challenged (a euphemism for stupid).

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• Release date: Sep 22, 2017
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Contents

Dedication

Preface

Introduction

Conversation 1

Conversation 2

Conversation 3

Conversation 4

Conversation 5

Conversation 6

Conversation 7

Conversation 8

Conversation 9

Conversation 10

Conversation 11

Conversation 12

Addenda

A. Why Something Exists Rather Than Nothing?

B. How Long Will Jesus Be Content Just to Sit on His Butt?

C. The Likely Genesis of Religion and Science

Made by the Right Writer’s Press

A Secular Humanist (Atheist) Enterprise

Humanists cherish, focus on, and strive to make as pleasurable as possible this life before death, for it is the only one they ever will know.

Other publications by the author, under the names Holley Gene Duffield; H. G. Duffield:

Tolstoy and the Critics: Literature and Aesthetics (1965)

Problems in Criticism of the Arts (1967)

Journal of Shaker Studies (founder, editor and author) (1995–1998)

Historical Dictionary of the Shakers (2000)

On a Tiny Iceberg Drifting South: The Tale of a Man Who Chose (2007) Not to Swim: A Novel

Two Pups and a Pop: Probers of Problems, Issues, and Other Things: a Novel (2007)

Calvin and Reuben Reveal the Shakers: A History (2007)

Shakers, Mormons, and Orthodox Christians: Any Good News for Everyman? (2010)

About Stuff in Our Society (2010)

Reuben’s Tale: Of Loves, Truths, and Deceptions: A Novel (2011)

God and Religion: Myth, Tyranny, and Ignorance (2011)

You and I and God: The Glory, Jest, and Riddles of the World (2011)

The Meaning of God and Thoughts About Incredible Christianity (2012)

The Christian God Is Unnecessary, Dangerous, and Disgraceful (2012)

Life is Like … (World Poetry Movement, 2012) (2012)

Preposterous Principles and Practices of Christianity (2012)

The Yahoos of American Society (2013)

As I See Them: Remarkable Matters in My America (2013)

I Am God by Name, a Megalomaniac by Choice (2014)

Reuben and Women, an Uncommon Account of an Uncommon Man’s Love of the Pleasure of Pleasures—a Celebration of Natural Human Sexuality (2015, a novel)

Unsolicited Discourses by an Atheist for the Edification of Citizens, Especially Christians, Who Are Unaware of Their Ignorance (2015)

Two Yellow Lab Puppies and an Old Guy: Fabulous Tales by an Incomparable Trio (2016)

16 Things I Loathe about American Society (2017), and You Should Too (2017); Concerning Two Jews and One Christian: A Raped Momma, a Bastard Son, and an Apostle: Plus Edifying Addenda (2017)

Dedication

My thanks to and appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll, a man of great insight and sophisticated thought––and my inspiration. Conversation 8 is largely Ingersoll’s thoughts that I have paraphrased to fit my manner of developing the conversation.

(Robert G. Ingersoll, About The Holy Bible: A Lecture, 1894)

Preface

Jesus: "Think not I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

For I am come to SET A MAN AT VARIANCE AGAINST HIS FATHER, AND THE DAUGHTER AGAINST HER MOTHER, AND THE DAUGHTER IN LAW AGAINST HER MOTHER IN LAW.

And A MAN’S FOES SHALL BE THEY OF HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD. He that loveth father and mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me." (Matthew 10: 34-37, KJV 1611)

Do we know a more disingenuous and degenerate and arrogant and hypocritical and half-breed human bastard than this Jesus? No. No. No.

Introduction

The Bible is a curious thing, for no such Bible as the Bible exists. Rather, we have a plethora of Bibles alleged to be the Bible. Scholars tell us that the earliest documented Bible to be printed in modern English language was that of William Tyndale (c. 1494-1536) in CE 1522. A scholar and a leader in the Protestant Reform, Tyndale translated Hebrew and Greek texts into CE 16th century English. (For his efforts he allegedly was strangled to death and then burnt. Ah, ain’t Christians something, eh!)

The texts Tyndale allegedly used seem no longer to exist. This must mean that all or many of the subsequent Bibles––the King James (1611), for example––were translated from other (maybe false) sources or cribbed from Tyndale’s Bible.

Biblical scholars allege that the King James scholars/translators copied as much as 83% of the New Testament from Tyndale’s work. Also, they wrote their Bible in CE 17th English, much different in various ways from Tyndale’s language, as in spelling.

Some modern Bibles subsequent to the King James––which has become the so-called Authorized Version of many maybe most Christian sects––obviously are cribbed versions of the King James and various other English language versions. On the market today are works such as Revised Standard Version, New Revised Standard Version, Good News for Modern Man, Holy Bible Modern Literal Version [touted by its makers as the world’s most accurate English version], New International Version, The Message: the Bible in Contemporary Language––et cetera.

So when a preacher says, The Bible says … we must ask which one, for they all do not say the same thing––which is not a small matter if people believe that the Bible is God’s actual, inerrant words (without fault or error––as if anyone actually could know).

(A formal statement in favor of biblical inerrancy was published in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society in 1978. The signatories to the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy admit that inspiration, strictly speaking, applies only to the autographic text of Scripture. (Whatever the hell that means, eh.) However, even though maybe no extant original manuscripts of the Bible those which exist can be considered inerrant [emphasis added] because, as the statement reads: the autographic text of Scripture …in the providence of God can be ascertained from available manuscripts with great accuracy. (Mumbo-jumbo, jibber jabber, eh. Wikipedia.)

When on the cross did Jesus, Yahweh’s inglorious bastard son, whine, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? (KJV, 1611, Matthew 27:46), or did he whine, My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? (The Message, Matthew 27:45-46)? To willfully ignorant Christians and intelligent evilangelists, does the difference matter? After all, forsaken and abandoned are cognates, but which did Jesus/God really say? Both words cannot be the right one. If various translators can choose whatever word they prefer, could they also make personal diction choices throughout their translations? Yes.

So, if we compare King James and The Message side by side and note that they have, say, hundreds of differences, how would/could we decide which of the translations is the inerrant one? For a person to say that both are is for that person to confess to idiocy.

Both the King James and The Message are written in modern English ––notwithstanding punctuation, archaic spelling and syntax. This fact alone makes any English language translation suspect as to its being inerrant, for God very likely did not speak English.

When the King James Jesus says, Verily, I say unto you … (which no speaker today would utter), would that language be equivalent to modern language spoken by folks far less than linguistically sophisticated: Hey, guys,