Yeah, since I've been cut off from commenting, but not banned from the group (yet) I can look at stupidity but can't comment. So, on occasion, doing a compilation over several weeks, I'll fire away here.
Like this guy, who gets it right that for the (semi-OCCASIONAL) martyrdom (he omits what's in that previous parentheses) prison was the "holding pen" before execution, and that it didn't exist much else in the ancient Mediterranean, then spoils it with this:
The Mamertine Prison in Rome may have held Peter and Paul in prison before their executions
Uh, no, Cochise, in almost all likelihood, neither was killed in Rome and neither of them even got to Rome. With Paul, that last 1/4 of Acts is fictional, as is the ideal of Nero persecuting Christians for the Fire of Rome, mainly because it's likely a Christian interpolation in Tacitus, and even if "his," it's him doing a double bank shot to smear both Christians and Nero.
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Then, good moronity by someone trying to take a traditionalist line on the Torah vs Malachi on dating, then bitching when he gets pwned. He posts a lot at exjew, which looks like its own unique Reddit swamp. Also, I used the word "Torah"; why is an ex-Jew using "Penteteuch"?
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An ex-Muslim, per his comments elsewhere, now claiming to be an antitheist, not just an atheist, apparently trolling for Christian-based ways to deconvert Muslims.
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And, there's the mix of good, bad and ugly comments on an actually good post asking about just how much does the Talmud talk about Jesus. Most of the worst posts are from people who probably also falsely claim antizionism is antisemitism. Yes, Yeshua was a common Jewish name at the time of Jesus. Did the rabbis 200-500 years later have that much reason to talk about that many other Jesuses, though? No. Not just no. Of course not. When a Jewish scholar like Amy-Jill Levine, as cited by one commenter, says Jews have things in the Talmud to be apologizing for, and another commenter attacks that commenter, you have what? Goysplaining?
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Via a post there, but not the post itself, how an otherwise good Smithsonian piece can discuss in detail how Mary Magdalene eventually became labeled a whore, including mentioning the great variety of early Christian literature, and even mentioning Karen L. King's book about her, "The Gospel of Mary of Magdala," and yet, never use the actual words "Gnostic" or "Gnosticism" is beyond me.
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A comment on another thread claiming that Peter was a "businessman" and likely literate in Hebrew aas well as Aramaic? Literate enough to at least possibly have written a Sabbath poem that was the subject of medieval Jewish legend? Citing this seven-year-old untenable comment as support? And, on the "businessman" angle, believing Gospel tales as truth that James and John were personally known to the Sanhedrin? Oy.
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An MA in theology exercising a mix of laziness and bad education in having to ask for books discussing Jesus as the Word of God?
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And, this person, dissing on Francesca Stavrakopoulou, claiming she used to be "more respectful" in the past, and this guy's only been on Reddit under current name for less than a month. I don't think "God: An Anatomy" was fantastic, but it was 3 3/4 stars solid. Also, the mods let him POST, not just comment, with no more than three weeks on Reddit and ergo no more than three weeks on the sub.
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