Ben Stein Stumps Richard Dawkins.

[PostmodernProph]

If a second child negates virgin birth, then James the brother of Jesus negates the virgin birth of Jesus. You can't have it both ways no matter how much you might want it that way!

/facepalm.....its claimed (by some AtheistsRUs websites) that Isis' second child was a virgin birth......ask me if Mary's delivery of James was a virgin birth,.....(why are atheists so fucking dumb)

Isis had only ONE child, Horus. His brother Anubis was ADOPTED, so Isis only birthed one child!!!

(why are creationists so fucking dumb)

tell me straight up.....are you claiming Isis had a virgin birth?....

 

[thebrucebeat]

and don't bother with 2nd Century Roman Mithraism, because none of its parallels with Christianity were present in the ancient form of the religion.....

and don't pretend that some Egyptian deity of the Sun is obviously Jesus Christ because once he was called the morning star.....because Jesus Christ didn't ride a chariot across the sky and park it in a cave every night.....

come up with something fresh and legitimate to occupy myself for an hour or so while I ridicule it....

You don't even know your own scriptures.
Now you want us to believe you know something about ancient faiths as well?
I don't think I will.

 

[PostmodernProph]

and don't bother with 2nd Century Roman Mithraism, because none of its parallels with Christianity were present in the ancient form of the religion.....

and don't pretend that some Egyptian deity of the Sun is obviously Jesus Christ because once he was called the morning star.....because Jesus Christ didn't ride a chariot across the sky and park it in a cave every night.....

come up with something fresh and legitimate to occupy myself for an hour or so while I ridicule it....

You don't even know your own scriptures.
Now you want us to believe you know something about ancient faiths as well?
I don't think I will.

/yawn......so, how many horses did Solomon have and what impact did that have on transubstantiation?........

 

[edthecynic]

I'm afraid you'll need to give an example of these "pagan roots" so I can comment on them.....so far I haven't seen much......let me guess....do you think Isis had a virgin birth?.....when her second child was born?.......

Not so fast there Slick! If giving birth to a second child negates virgin birth, then the birth of James the brother of Jesus negates the virgin birth of Jesus. You can't have it both ways. BTW, Anubis, the brother of Horus, was adopted and therefore born of Isis.

okay, let me work this through for you very slowly.....it is not the birth of the second child that negates the virgin birth of the first.......it is the birth of the first child that negates the possibility that the second was a virgin birth.....not to mention that Isis was married and conceived Horus by making a dildo out of her dead husbands missing body parts.....not your typical virgin birth......

Why are the most condescending Christians the most ignorant???

Isis had only ONE child by BIRTH, Horus. Anubis, who was born of Nephthys, was ADOPTED by Osiris and ISIS.

 

[edthecynic]

/facepalm.....its claimed (by some AtheistsRUs websites) that Isis' second child was a virgin birth......ask me if Mary's delivery of James was a virgin birth,.....(why are atheists so fucking dumb)

Isis had only ONE child, Horus. His brother Anubis was ADOPTED, so Isis only birthed one child!!!

(why are creationists so fucking dumb)

tell me straight up.....are you claiming Isis had a virgin birth?....

That is the way the myth goes! I personally don't believe in virgin birth.

 

[PostmodernProph]

Isis had only ONE child, Horus. His brother Anubis was ADOPTED, so Isis only birthed one child!!!

(why are creationists so fucking dumb)

tell me straight up.....are you claiming Isis had a virgin birth?....

That is the way the myth goes! I personally don't believe in virgin birth.

so a goddess of fertility.....married.....who impregnates herself with her husband's severed and mummified penis.....and you say the myth says she's a virgin......I put it to you that myth doesn't go anywhere near virgin birth.....the only place you'll find that claim is an atheist "I'm going to prove Christianity is a copycat religion" website.....

and, it has nothing at all to do with the actual myth of Isis......

 

[PostmodernProph]

Not so fast there Slick! If giving birth to a second child negates virgin birth, then the birth of James the brother of Jesus negates the virgin birth of Jesus. You can't have it both ways. BTW, Anubis, the brother of Horus, was adopted and therefore born of Isis.

okay, let me work this through for you very slowly.....it is not the birth of the second child that negates the virgin birth of the first.......it is the birth of the first child that negates the possibility that the second was a virgin birth.....not to mention that Isis was married and conceived Horus by making a dildo out of her dead husbands missing body parts.....not your typical virgin birth......

Why are the most condescending Christians the most ignorant???

/shrugs....I'm not the one who claimed the birth of a second child prevented the first from being a virgin birth......I don't think you should talk about who's the most ignorant around here......

 

[sealybobo]

Great listen! Dawkins vs. Lennox Debate (very short version): WHO CREATED GOD ?? LENNOX OBLITERATES DAWKINS AND HIS 2006 BEST SELLER - YouTube

THis isn't Dawkins v Lennox. This is just Lennox. I'm sure Dawkins wiped the floor with him. Hell I could have. He said nothing. He provided no proof. Nothing.

 

[edthecynic]

tell me straight up.....are you claiming Isis had a virgin birth?....

That is the way the myth goes! I personally don't believe in virgin birth.

so a goddess of fertility.....married.....who impregnates herself with her husband's severed and mummified penis.....and you say the myth says she's a virgin......I put it to you that myth doesn't go anywhere near virgin birth.....the only place you'll find that claim is an atheist "I'm going to prove Christianity is a copycat religion" website.....

and, it has nothing at all to do with the actual myth of Isis......

Osiris' penis was never recovered to impregnate Isis, it was eaten by a fish.

You want to rewrite mythology as well as the bible.

ISIS IS A VIRGIN MOTHER!!! | Freethought Nation

As it turns out, we would be completely wrong and utterly unscholarly to assert that Isis was not a virgin, as so many have been doing around the internet and elsewhere.The fact of Isis’s perpetual virginity is demonstrated in the ZG Sourcebook, where the information is carefully cited. It is repeated here for the reader’s ease of reference.
PROOF THAT ISIS WAS A VIRGIN MOTHER, FROM PRIMARY SOURCES AND THE WORKS OF HIGHLY CREDENTIALED AUTHORITIES
The virginity of Horus’s mother, Isis, has been disputed, because in one myth she is portrayed as impregnating herself with Osiris’s severed phallus. In depictions of Isis’s impregnation, the goddess conceives Horus “while she fluttered in the form of a hawk over the corpse of her dead husband.” …in an image from the tomb of Ramesses VI, Horus is born out of Osiris’s corpse without Isis even being in the picture. In another tradition, Horus is conceived when the water of the Nile—identified as Osiris—overflows the river’s banks, which are equated with Isis. The “phallus” in this latter case is the “sharp star Sothis” or Sirius, the rising of which signaled the Nile flood. Hence, in discussing these myths we are not dealing with “real people” who have body parts.

‘Osiris…begetting a son by Isis, who hovers over him in the form of a hawk.’
(Budge, On the Future Life: Egyptian Religion, 80)​

As is often the case with mythical figures, despite the way she is impregnated, Isis remained the “Great Virgin,” as she is called in a number of pre-Christian Egyptian writings. As stated by Egyptologist Dr. Reginald E. Witt, In Isis in the Ancient World:
The Egyptian goddess who was equally “the Great Virgin” (hwnt) and “Mother of the God” was the object of the very same praise bestowed upon her successor [Mary, Virgin Mother of Jesus].
One of the inscriptions that calls Isis the “Great Virgin” appears in the temple of Seti I at Abydos dating to the 13th century BCE. As stated by professor of Old Testament and Catholic Theology at the University of Bonn Dr. G. Johannes Botterweck, in the Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament:
..The Pyramid Texts speak of “the great virgin” (hwn.t wr.t) three times (682c, 728a, 2002a…); she is anonymous, appears as the protectress of the king, and is explicitly called his mother once (809c). It is interesting that Isis is addresseed as hwn.t in a sarcophagus oracle that deals with her mysterious pregnancy. In a text in the Abydos Temple of Seti I, Isis herself declares: “I am the great virgin.”…
It should be noted that the king or pharaoh, whose mother is called “the great virgin,” is also the living Horus; hence, his great virgin mother would be Isis.

Also, in the temple of Neith and Isis at Sais was an ancient inscription that depicted the virgin birth of the sun:
The present and the future and the past, I am. My undergarment no one has uncovered. The fruit I brought forth, the sun came into being.
As Dr. Botterweck also writes:
In the Late Period [712-332 BCE] in particular, goddesses are frequently called “(beautiful) virgins,” especially Hathor, Isis, and Nephthys.


During the Greco-Roman period, Isis was equated with the constellation of Virgo, the Virgin, as I relate in Christ in Egypt:
…The identification of Isis with the Virgin…is made in an ancient Greek text called The Katasterismoi, or Catasterismi, allegedly written by the astronomer Eratosthenes (276-194 BCE), who was for some 50 years the head librarian of the massive Library of Alexandria. Although the original of this text has been lost, an “epitome” credited to Eratosthenes in ancient times has been attributed by modern scholars to an anonymous “Pseudo-Eratosthenes” of the 1st to 2nd centuries AD/CE. In this book, the title of which translates as “Placing Among the Stars,” appear discussions of the signs of the zodiac. IN his essay on the zodiacal sign of Virgo (ch. 9), under the heading of “Parthenos,” the author includes the goddess Isis, among others, such as Demeter, Atagartis and Tyche, as identified with and as the constellation of the Virgin. In Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans, Dr. Theony Condos…translates the pertinent passage from the chapter “Virgo” by Pseud-Eratosthenes thus:
Hesiod in the Theogony says this figure is Dike, the daughter of Zeus [Dios] and Themis… Some say it is Demeter because of the sheaf of grain she holds, others say it is Isis, others Atagartis, others Tyche…
(For more information, including the original Greek, where the father-god Zeus is termed Dios, meaning the “Divine One” or “God,” see Christ in Egypt, 156ff.)
Also, there exists at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York an ancient Carnelian ring stone from the Imperial period (1st-2nd cents. AD/CE) that is an “adaptation” of a Greek artifact from the fourth century BCE. The ring stone possesses an image of the Greco-Egyptian hybrid god Serapis-Hades and Isis standing before him holding an “ear of wheat and the sistrum.” The Greek inscription reads:

The phrase is translated as “The Lady Isis, Immaculate,” the latter word from the Greek verb agneuw, meaning “to be pure or chaste.”

 

[thebrucebeat]

and don't bother with 2nd Century Roman Mithraism, because none of its parallels with Christianity were present in the ancient form of the religion.....

and don't pretend that some Egyptian deity of the Sun is obviously Jesus Christ because once he was called the morning star.....because Jesus Christ didn't ride a chariot across the sky and park it in a cave every night.....

come up with something fresh and legitimate to occupy myself for an hour or so while I ridicule it....

You don't even know your own scriptures.
Now you want us to believe you know something about ancient faiths as well?
I don't think I will.

/yawn......so, how many horses did Solomon have and what impact did that have on transubstantiation?........

Another strike.
Transubstantiation isn't in the bible.
It's a Catholic doctrine.
You are a disaster.

 

[edthecynic]

okay, let me work this through for you very slowly.....it is not the birth of the second child that negates the virgin birth of the first.......it is the birth of the first child that negates the possibility that the second was a virgin birth.....not to mention that Isis was married and conceived Horus by making a dildo out of her dead husbands missing body parts.....not your typical virgin birth......

Why are the most condescending Christians the most ignorant???

/shrugs....I'm not the one who claimed the birth of a second child prevented the first from being a virgin birth......I don't think you should talk about who's the most ignorant around here......

Yes you did. Even worse you were unknowingly claiming that an adopted child was birthed by the adopting mother.

 

[Hollie]

okay, let me work this through for you very slowly.....it is not the birth of the second child that negates the virgin birth of the first.......it is the birth of the first child that negates the possibility that the second was a virgin birth.....not to mention that Isis was married and conceived Horus by making a dildo out of her dead husbands missing body parts.....not your typical virgin birth......

Why are the most condescending Christians the most ignorant???

/shrugs....I'm not the one who claimed the birth of a second child prevented the first from being a virgin birth......I don't think you should talk about who's the most ignorant around here......

You should not presume that tales of a virgin birth within mythology that pre-dates Christianity lends credence to biblical stories of virgins giving birth.

Christianity is a syncretic faith and has just co-opted some of the tales and fables of earlier religions.

 

[DriftingSand]

Why are the most condescending Christians the most ignorant???

/shrugs....I'm not the one who claimed the birth of a second child prevented the first from being a virgin birth......I don't think you should talk about who's the most ignorant around here......

You should not presume that tales of a virgin birth within mythology that pre-dates Christianity lends credence to biblical stories of virgins giving birth.

Christianity is a syncretic faith and has just co-opted some of the tales and fables of earlier religions.

"Stories" of virgin birth vs. actual virgin birth are two different things. The Bible states that Mary was a virgin who gave birth to Jesus Christ. I realize that you don't believe what the Bible says but what you believe doesn't matter. From my perspective, only what I believe matters.

 

[edthecynic]

/shrugs....I'm not the one who claimed the birth of a second child prevented the first from being a virgin birth......I don't think you should talk about who's the most ignorant around here......

You should not presume that tales of a virgin birth within mythology that pre-dates Christianity lends credence to biblical stories of virgins giving birth.

Christianity is a syncretic faith and has just co-opted some of the tales and fables of earlier religions.

"Stories" of virgin birth vs. actual virgin birth are two different things. The Bible states that Mary was a virgin who gave birth to Jesus Christ. I realize that you don't believe what the Bible says but what you believe doesn't matter. From my perspective, only what I believe matters.

There are no ACTUAL human virgin births!

 

[Hollie]

You should not presume that tales of a virgin birth within mythology that pre-dates Christianity lends credence to biblical stories of virgins giving birth.

Christianity is a syncretic faith and has just co-opted some of the tales and fables of earlier religions.

"Stories" of virgin birth vs. actual virgin birth are two different things. The Bible states that Mary was a virgin who gave birth to Jesus Christ. I realize that you don't believe what the Bible says but what you believe doesn't matter. From my perspective, only what I believe matters.

There are no ACTUAL human virgin births!

The planet is not actually 6,000 years old, however, there are those who will insist otherwise.

 

[DriftingSand]

You should not presume that tales of a virgin birth within mythology that pre-dates Christianity lends credence to biblical stories of virgins giving birth.

Christianity is a syncretic faith and has just co-opted some of the tales and fables of earlier religions.

"Stories" of virgin birth vs. actual virgin birth are two different things. The Bible states that Mary was a virgin who gave birth to Jesus Christ. I realize that you don't believe what the Bible says but what you believe doesn't matter. From my perspective, only what I believe matters.

There are no ACTUAL human virgin births!

Except for Mary's.

 

[edthecynic]

"Stories" of virgin birth vs. actual virgin birth are two different things. The Bible states that Mary was a virgin who gave birth to Jesus Christ. I realize that you don't believe what the Bible says but what you believe doesn't matter. From my perspective, only what I believe matters.

There are no ACTUAL human virgin births!

Except for Mary's.

Including Mary!

 

[PostmodernProph]

That is the way the myth goes! I personally don't believe in virgin birth.

so a goddess of fertility.....married.....who impregnates herself with her husband's severed and mummified penis.....and you say the myth says she's a virgin......I put it to you that myth doesn't go anywhere near virgin birth.....the only place you'll find that claim is an atheist "I'm going to prove Christianity is a copycat religion" website.....

and, it has nothing at all to do with the actual myth of Isis......

Osiris' penis was never recovered to impregnate Isis, it was eaten by a fish.

You want to rewrite mythology as well as the bible.

ISIS IS A VIRGIN MOTHER!!! | Freethought Nation

As it turns out, we would be completely wrong and utterly unscholarly to assert that Isis was not a virgin, as so many have been doing around the internet and elsewhere.The fact of Isis’s perpetual virginity is demonstrated in the ZG Sourcebook, where the information is carefully cited. It is repeated here for the reader’s ease of reference.
PROOF THAT ISIS WAS A VIRGIN MOTHER, FROM PRIMARY SOURCES AND THE WORKS OF HIGHLY CREDENTIALED AUTHORITIES
The virginity of Horus’s mother, Isis, has been disputed, because in one myth she is portrayed as impregnating herself with Osiris’s severed phallus. In depictions of Isis’s impregnation, the goddess conceives Horus “while she fluttered in the form of a hawk over the corpse of her dead husband.” …in an image from the tomb of Ramesses VI, Horus is born out of Osiris’s corpse without Isis even being in the picture. In another tradition, Horus is conceived when the water of the Nile—identified as Osiris—overflows the river’s banks, which are equated with Isis. The “phallus” in this latter case is the “sharp star Sothis” or Sirius, the rising of which signaled the Nile flood. Hence, in discussing these myths we are not dealing with “real people” who have body parts.

‘Osiris…begetting a son by Isis, who hovers over him in the form of a hawk.’
(Budge, On the Future Life: Egyptian Religion, 80)​

As is often the case with mythical figures, despite the way she is impregnated, Isis remained the “Great Virgin,” as she is called in a number of pre-Christian Egyptian writings. As stated by Egyptologist Dr. Reginald E. Witt, In Isis in the Ancient World:
The Egyptian goddess who was equally “the Great Virgin” (hwnt) and “Mother of the God” was the object of the very same praise bestowed upon her successor [Mary, Virgin Mother of Jesus].
One of the inscriptions that calls Isis the “Great Virgin” appears in the temple of Seti I at Abydos dating to the 13th century BCE. As stated by professor of Old Testament and Catholic Theology at the University of Bonn Dr. G. Johannes Botterweck, in the Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament:
..The Pyramid Texts speak of “the great virgin” (hwn.t wr.t) three times (682c, 728a, 2002a… she is anonymous, appears as the protectress of the king, and is explicitly called his mother once (809c). It is interesting that Isis is addresseed as hwn.t in a sarcophagus oracle that deals with her mysterious pregnancy. In a text in the Abydos Temple of Seti I, Isis herself declares: “I am the great virgin.”…
It should be noted that the king or pharaoh, whose mother is called “the great virgin,” is also the living Horus; hence, his great virgin mother would be Isis.

Also, in the temple of Neith and Isis at Sais was an ancient inscription that depicted the virgin birth of the sun:
The present and the future and the past, I am. My undergarment no one has uncovered. The fruit I brought forth, the sun came into being.
As Dr. Botterweck also writes:
In the Late Period [712-332 BCE] in particular, goddesses are frequently called “(beautiful) virgins,” especially Hathor, Isis, and Nephthys.


During the Greco-Roman period, Isis was equated with the constellation of Virgo, the Virgin, as I relate in Christ in Egypt:
…The identification of Isis with the Virgin…is made in an ancient Greek text called The Katasterismoi, or Catasterismi, allegedly written by the astronomer Eratosthenes (276-194 BCE), who was for some 50 years the head librarian of the massive Library of Alexandria. Although the original of this text has been lost, an “epitome” credited to Eratosthenes in ancient times has been attributed by modern scholars to an anonymous “Pseudo-Eratosthenes” of the 1st to 2nd centuries AD/CE. In this book, the title of which translates as “Placing Among the Stars,” appear discussions of the signs of the zodiac. IN his essay on the zodiacal sign of Virgo (ch. 9), under the heading of “Parthenos,” the author includes the goddess Isis, among others, such as Demeter, Atagartis and Tyche, as identified with and as the constellation of the Virgin. In Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans, Dr. Theony Condos…translates the pertinent passage from the chapter “Virgo” by Pseud-Eratosthenes thus:
Hesiod in the Theogony says this figure is Dike, the daughter of Zeus [Dios] and Themis… Some say it is Demeter because of the sheaf of grain she holds, others say it is Isis, others Atagartis, others Tyche…
(For more information, including the original Greek, where the father-god Zeus is termed Dios, meaning the “Divine One” or “God,” see Christ in Egypt, 156ff.)
Also, there exists at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York an ancient Carnelian ring stone from the Imperial period (1st-2nd cents. AD/CE) that is an “adaptation” of a Greek artifact from the fourth century BCE. The ring stone possesses an image of the Greco-Egyptian hybrid god Serapis-Hades and Isis standing before him holding an “ear of wheat and the sistrum.” The Greek inscription reads:

The phrase is translated as “The Lady Isis, Immaculate,” the latter word from the Greek verb agneuw, meaning “to be pure or chaste.”

I knew if I waited long enough somebody would pull out their favorite, AtheistRUs website.....

so, what was the problem with Osiris.....she was apparently gorgeous, goddess of fertility and all....and yet despite all that his wife was a virgin......

Osiris' penis was never recovered to impregnate Isis, it was eaten by a fish.

and yet, from your link...

because in one myth she is portrayed as impregnating herself with Osiris’s severed phallus

so I sense some inner conflict here......how is it Isis could be considered a virgin....ah, here it is....

Indeed, numerous goddesses and other figures—including gods such as Zeus, of all characters—were deemed “parthenos” or virginal, despite whether or not they gave birth once, twice or an infinite amount of times

and the ultimate solution....

The fact of Isis’s perpetual virginity is demonstrated in the ZG Sourcebook, where the information is carefully cited. It is repeated here for the reader’s ease of reference.

so in other words, they know she isn't a virgin, but they're going to pretend she is.....why?.....well, so they can criticize Christianity, of course!.....

Here I provide the ancient testimony and primary sources for the contention that Isis, the mother of the Egyptian god Horus, was considered and deemed a virgin long before Jesus was a twinkle in his Father’s eye.

in short, they don't care whether she was a virgin or not, so long as they can claim Mary wasn't the first.....lol.....

 

[PostmodernProph]

You don't even know your own scriptures.
Now you want us to believe you know something about ancient faiths as well?
I don't think I will.

/yawn......so, how many horses did Solomon have and what impact did that have on transubstantiation?........

Another strike.
Transubstantiation isn't in the bible.
It's a Catholic doctrine.
You are a disaster.

I don't recall saying it was in the Bible......look closer, can you see me saying that anywhere?......now, here's an important one for you......how many animals were in the Garden of Eden......(personally I don't care, but Hollie really wants to know)......on this issue rests the entire doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church......

 

[PostmodernProph]

Why are the most condescending Christians the most ignorant???

/shrugs....I'm not the one who claimed the birth of a second child prevented the first from being a virgin birth......I don't think you should talk about who's the most ignorant around here......

Yes you did.

no you silly twit....I did not....reread the fucking post with both eyes open.....