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[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (3 children)

No, I can't fly. This guy in this book from 2000 years ago can fly. Need the proof? Look at all these very legitimate eyewitness testimonies.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

(points to some guy's fanfic)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Just to clarify nothing in the Bible is eye witness testimony. It's written by anonymous authors decades after Jesus's death.

Nevermind the fact that eye witness testimony is in general extremely unreliable. The Bible doesn't even have that. All it has, is a bunch of unsubstantiated claims by anonymous people.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Missing panel: being thrown off a bridge

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Hahaha

Had the same thought, “I can prove this dude can’t fly pretty easy, see that cliff?”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Battlefield earth had a scene like that. "Man animals can't fly" and throws a person over ravine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How can anyone remember dialogue from that forgettable Scientologist propaganda?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Was it? I thought that one was after earth with will smith.

Or were there 2 propaganda ones that happen to have earth in the name?

Cause if that is true that's lazy on them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Travolta, a Scientologist, began attempting to adapt Battlefield Earth in the mid-1990s. He was unable to obtain major studio funding because of concerns regarding the script and its connections to Scientology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_Earth_(film)

Also Battlefield Earth is the name of one of the inventor of Scientology’s books.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

That is crazy. Thank for the info. I saw it in theaters as a kid so it was quite memorable for me.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

"I don't have to, because the knowledge of my ability to fly has already been imprinted upon the hearts of everyone on earth. If you truly decide to let my flying ability into your heart, you will quickly understand the power behind that truth."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

The burden of proof is always on the person making the claim. If they can't prove their claim, their claim is simply dismissed. You never have to disprove an unproven claim. This is how all reality works. Religious people blatantly lie about reality, they are never to be trusted.

The key to religion is the last frame. If you don't do what they say, and think how they say to think, then they get angry and resort to abuse, violence, murder, and finally - genocide.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

All this talk of flying and no-one is bothering with magic underwear?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

OF COURSE I CAN FLY!!!!!

Jumps off a high building and is never heard from again

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Also flat earthers