HELPING BELIEVERS TO KNOW THEIR BIBLE BETTER: PART 2

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Comment by David Orenstein on July 14, 2011 at 8:16pm

Hello Dr. Meaden (Terence), Thank you for your glad tidings. It is wonderful to be part of a community of atheists and humanists much like myself. Please, call me David.

I teach anthropology and I am active in several atheist and secular groups, local and national here in the US. I also have a blog, www.paleolibrarian.blogspot.com, should you like to read some of my less academic writings on evolution and atheist issues. Cheers, David

Comment by Charles P. O'Dale on July 10, 2011 at 7:48am

2 Kings 6:28-29
"Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son tomorrow.
So we boiled my son, and did eat him."

Comment by S.F. Zeigler on May 3, 2011 at 6:34pm

Even better. Thanks Loren! I especially like the quote generator.

Comment by Loren Miller on May 3, 2011 at 5:27pm

A little research at the Skeptic's Annotated Bible finds those and a LOT more.

Comment by Dr. Terence Meaden on May 3, 2011 at 5:11pm

That's a fine list of horrific quotations from the bible. It occupies about 10 pages at 12-point. 

Thanks for telling me.

Comment by S.F. Zeigler on May 3, 2011 at 3:37pm

Mitch has a great list on his site http://hcssc.net

Comment by Kiru on October 21, 2010 at 12:07pm

Them claiming it was really grape juice is a great example of how easily they try believing the meaning was something other than the obvious. Something they do all through that book. I recall being in church and watching my Sunday school class sweat over trying to reanalyze why Paul said women should keep their mouths shut and never preach. The teacher was a woman. She was obviously nervous at that moment.

At any rate, let's analyze this... the guy says people usually bring out the best wine first, saying that they saved the best for last. Who the hell brings out the best grape juice first? Who celebrates with grape juice? Oh wait, I have a great idea, which they never seem to have ever come up with. Ask the Jews. They still exist.

Comment by Peggy Henderson on October 21, 2010 at 10:13am

Mormons: also, no coffee or even soft drinks that contain caffeine.

Baptists, at least the ones I used to know, preach against drinking alcoholic beverage. There used to be a joke in Oklahoma [dry state at the time] that Oklahoma would vote dry as long as the Baptists and the Boot-leggers could stagger to the polls.

See what I meant about their sophistry? Astounding. Our Sunday school teachers used to try to claim that the wine was really grape juice. I remember asking well, why didn't they just say grape juice? I think I was told that the word really meant grape juice but got translated wrong. . .next obvious question. . .so why didn't someone fix the translation? There must be hundreds of translations out there now that post-date KJV and I'll bet a lot that every one of them uses the word wine NOT grape juice.

Comment by Kiru on October 20, 2010 at 10:21pm

Let's all just be thankful that most parents are more moral than the bible's god. Otherwise, we'd have a lot of children getting stoned to death, and kids learning to execute people working on Saturday... the day I most often buy my beer!!! Don't mess with the beer!

Speaking of which, Mormons... no beer? Didn't they read the part that says "eat, drink, and be merry"? Or the places where wine is talked of quite positively. Not to mention Jesus making wine for the feast, though I recall that he was a bit of a jack-ass about it.

Comment by Peggy Henderson on October 20, 2010 at 3:57pm

Kiki, I used to tell my Mom that meant she wasn't supposed to spank me and instead was supposed to 'spoil' me. [I was a smart-ass] Needless to say it didn't work. I think I picked up that sort of sophistry from my church attendance. Ever notice how 'believers' manage to twist scripture to mean anything they wish?

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