James White Debated Dan Barker

(Caught wind of the debate from Turretin Fan) You can listen to Dan Barker be a cry baby...and you can also listen to him assert that the facts of Jesus' birth and miracles were borrowed from other pagan sources. He opens by slightly changing the story of the three pigs...everyone in the audience recognized that's what he was doing...somehow this is supposed to solidify the theory the Biblical records did the same. This was apparently a brilliant set-up in the small mind of Mr. Barker.

My question:
If we can immediately recognize the story of the three pigs when the story is altered, and we can tell someone is simply stealing the story line, why would anyone accept the authority of the Biblical records during the times of the Old Testament and the early Church? Are we supposed to think people were so stupid back then that they didn't recognize what, for them, would have been fairly contemporary tales? Maybe they did recognize them but felt the retellings so much superior that they were worth dying for. Methinks Dan is simply employing transference when it comes to the diminished capacity he suffers from.

Dan crying like a little girl:

Dan Barker: I object (to James White interacting with quotes from Barker's own book Godless) because we're not debating my book...you don't know that I may have changed my mind in the mean time...I may have changed my mind about ether, for example...for the record, I think it's inappropriate...I didn't quote anything you wrote...

James White: That's the point, that's the problem. We need to deal with what someone has actually put into the public realm.

"God is My Co-Pilot" -Satan

Well, according to Arminianism.

The Less Obvious Form of Racism

Taken from Doug Wilson's blog:

There are different kinds of racism -- the malicious kind, which we all recognize, and the patronizing, "benevolent" kind, the kind that liberals specialize in, and which is invisible to them. Smug platitudes make up the air they breathe, and you can't point it out to them. How are they supposed to see their air?

If a black man who is steeped in the standards of real civilization -- highly educated, industrious, hard-working, and he were to propose economic policies that would actually be a blessing, what will he be accused of by liberals? Right, he would be accused of being a race traitor. Liberals think that a black man cannot be a true black man without being dysfunctional, and dysfunctional in such a way as to require them to be his savior. How convenient. In their on-going self-narrative, they landed the starring role yet again. I call that real acting talent. (emphasis mine)