Man Finds Holy Visage on Breakfast: Is This a Holy Taco?

Looks like a lion to me. OMG! Maybe it's Aslan!

make-believe is fun

Taco. But whatever floats his boat...it is his taco.

I had a piece of popcorn once that looked like a sheep on a rock, did I go put it in a field?? No, I ate that stuff.

It can be anything you want it to be. The human mind it a wonderful thing. You can make a "belief system" that will believe and carry on fairy tales for ages, even though we have never been able to capture a fairy, or sasquach for that matter. Go on "believing" whatever you want, facts are facts and the world is the same.

Except God must exist.

http://gavanhe.blogspot.com/2...

No, that "proof" is ridiculous. It is full of logical fallacies. God cannot be proven. The very concept of a god is nothing more than primitive superstition.

Yeah. That's exactly why your "argument" addressed the logical "fallacies" you "found" in my article. Because you're so "smart".

No need for scare quotes. The argument presented is a tautology. Circular reasoning, whatever you want to call it. That and a lot of fluffy nonsense language to make it appear like they were using logic.
Statement 3 seems to be where they twist everything around. "potentiality is still a form of existence" is simply not true. But he uses the same sort of distortions throughout in little pieces, so they are not so easy to notice. The dude doesn't understand the difference between nouns and verbs.

And therefore you also do not understand Thomas Aquinas or Aristotle, from whence he derives his arguments.

I understand it. That doesn't make it anything more than an interesting supposition that ancient philosophers pondered. I.e. it is speculation, not fact. The idea that they could consider things to be that way does not require things to be that way.
The argument is faith based as it always has been. If they choose to believe their unproven assertions to be true, then it fits with their unproven conclusion.. Big deal.

In your mind I am sure your God does exists, just as each god exists in all the other religious people in the world. Your belief makes them "exist". For those who don't believe these "gods" do not exist. It is that simple. Belief is the power, without it the "existance" is nothing more than a fairytale. .

So if I stop believing you exist, you stop existing?

Somehow I don't think reality works that way.

No, it only works for fairytales. Like Santa Claus, God, and the Easter Bunny.

I am not trying to argue. I exist because we have material evidence, perhaps too large a visual evidence. Fairies, gobblins, gods, goddesses, unicorns, vampires and werewolves do not exist in the material world but only in the minds of their believers. I am not condemning. Without belief I do not fit into that club. I have no quarel with people who do, so long as they leave me alone and don't try to restrict my beliefs and freedom.

Why do you trust your senses? They've failed you before. How do you know they are not lying to you about your physical existence?

And if you trust your senses so much, why don't you trust others'? What makes their eyes and ears any more faulty than yours?

Truth is, you can't trust you exist - or, in fact, that anything exists - in the flesh. There is no physical evidence for you, if we take the strictest scepticism.

Except that, because you are capable of thinking, you must exist. (Of course, this only applies to you. It doesn't apply to me, because you don't know that I'm anything other than a figment of your imagination, this strict and radical scepticism applied.)

HELL! YOU CONVINCED ME!!!!

it's only a holy taco if she spreads her legs ;)

Oh my god!!! Jesus is in my taco!!!

HOW COME CHRISTIANS ALWAYS COME UP WITH CRAP LIKE THIS??

Because they know that religion is gradually fading away and they grasp at anything to cling to their superstition.

I'm asking around among my Japanese Buddhist friends to be sure, but I have not heard of anyone from my Buddhist sect doing this.

Looks more like Weird Al Yankovich to me!!

Anyhow, nobody know what Jesus looked like anyway because cameras weren't invented yet!

The Shroud of Turin?

That was proven to be a forgery a number of years ago. The type of cloth that the shroud was made from was not in use until centuries after Jesus died.

Ha, I hell didn't know that
Nice

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3...

While I don't agree with his theological conclusions - they seem rather flimsy to me - this scientist does seem to think it the genuine article.

Thanks for the link. I checked it out and came away no more convinced than before I read it. That scientist pointed out evidence that the shroud could have belonged to someone who had been crucified according to the method of the time of Jesus, but the shroud wasn't necessarily that of Jesus. Although, if the face is representative of how all men of that time appeared, then the typical representation of Jesus' face by all the artists who have done it is probably not too far from the actual appearance.

So now there are reputable scientists on both sides of the controversy (just like there are reputable scientists on both sides of the anthropogenic global warming controversy).

There always were. You simply discredited the ones for the Shroud because they believed it was true.

Tell me this: If an atheist did find that the facts spell out that Christ did exist, and that He did rise from the dead and the Apostles weren't making that up, why would that man feel compelled to stay an atheist?

I didn't discredit anyone. I simply stated that there are scientists on both sides of the controversy. We scientists are always open-minded to new discoveries. Presentations of new evidence must then be subjected to the scientific method of data analysis and the peer review process to verify the credibility of the new evidence. That is how any theory is handled by scientists, and how theories become elevated in stature among the multitude of those in the knowledge base.

In the scenario that you proposed in the second paragraph, you presupposed that an atheist would feel compelled to stay an atheist. How do you know that your hypothetical atheist would feel that way? In my case, I would critically examine the evidence (you stated "the facts spell out") presented according to the process I described above and make my judgement accordingly. If the examination was convincing enough, then the conclusion of Christ's existence and rise would be credible. However, that still wouldn't be proof of the existence of some sort of god, which is the criterion required to convert an atheist. There have been hundreds (if not thousands) of reports of supernatural-seeming phenomena over the centuries which scientific inquiries have been unable to thoroughly explain, and the alleged phenomenon of Christ rising from the dead would probably be another one which would fit that category of phenomena.

That's Balder the brave

You are just jealous because your "erectile glands" aren't on your head and so easily accessible.

Lol

Wow

obviously it's just food..

Looks more like the head of a Curly Coated Retriever, or a Golden Retriever , or a Cocker Spaniel OR, just a piece of burned something...

If enough people agree with him there are idiots who will pay bank for the "holy taco". People need to pull their heads out of their butts and start using critical thinking sometimes.

"[ . . . ] there are idiots who will pay bank for the "holy taco". "

Like how much?

I remember reading about some people paying thousands for a piece of toast with the face of Jesus on it. People get pretty stupid over this kind of thing...