The Skeptic's Annotated Bible
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This is amazing!
It has been many years since I attempted to read the bible. I didn't make it all the way through. Many times later I'd gone back to read various parts. I've always been impressed by the utter insanity of the bible and that people can believe in it is a constant source of bewilderment to me. The Annotated Bible helps you to get a grip on the incredible depths of absurdity that it plunges to. It correlates contradictions and notes brutalities and injustices.
This site is an utter gem. I hope it helps to save us from the irrationality driving "christian" society these days.
The bible is a truly terrible piece of work. If someone tried to publish such a piece now they would be hounded by exactly those who call themselves "good christians". It is a book of contradiction, injustice, absurdities, cruelty, intolerance, often insulting to women and minority groups. It is full of sex and violence. In fact the way it portrays its god would be deeply insulting to a sane deity; it is written as being jealous, scheming, unjust, hateful, temperamental, and given to unprovoked viciousness.
This is amazing!
It has been many years since I attempted to read the bible. I didn't make it all the way through. Many times later I'd gone back to read various parts. I've always been impressed by the utter insanity of the bible and that people can believe in it is a constant source of bewilderment to me. The Annotated Bible helps you to get a grip on the incredible depths of absurdity that it plunges to. It correlates contradictions and notes brutalities and injustices.
This site is an utter gem. I hope it helps to save us from the irrationality driving "christian" society these days.
The bible is a truly terrible piece of work. If someone tried to publish such a piece now they would be hounded by exactly those who call themselves "good christians". It is a book of contradiction, injustice, absurdities, cruelty, intolerance, often insulting to women and minority groups. It is full of sex and violence. In fact the way it portrays its god would be deeply insulting to a sane deity; it is written as being jealous, scheming, unjust, hateful, temperamental, and given to unprovoked viciousness.
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Date: 2003-06-20 02:59 am (UTC)Here is an interesting tale that illustrates just how compartmentalised the christian mind can sometimes be.
A while back I was invited to a small party at my ex-girlfriend's place hosted by her and her then-girlfriend, Pippa, who is a full-on, crazy christian. At one point she was saying to a few of us at the table that the biggest danger of the future would be the moslems. (This was well before the Sept 11 thing.)
I thought this was weird and said in a gentle and reasonable voice, "Hang on... it would seem the christians are a much greater threat. For instance the people doing all the mass-murdering in the Balkans were the christians. They were killing off the moslems and putting them in concentration camps."
She became very upset with me, obviously stuck for a moment. With a bit of hand-waving she explained it away as that being a war about land, not religion.
I was puzzled and asked if it was alright for christians to commit genocide for land then. But I knew there would be no resolution to this so, for Margaret's sake, I dropped the subject.
For that sin Pippa insisted that I never be allowed to eat at the table with them again. She and Margaret later split up (Pippa had been going out with other women while on with Margaret, but somehow still blamed Margaret for the split). I am still friends with Margaret. She has a much nicer and gentler, buddhist girlfriend these days.