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Four Hundred Fifty Antisemitic Verses In The Gospels And Book of Acts
Acclaimed Holocaust historian, Daniel Goldhagen, in his most recent book, The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism (Little, Brown & Co. 2013), claims the following about the New Testament: The Christian bible contains four hundred … Continue reading
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Tagged antisemitism, atheism, Bible, God, history, Jesus, New Testament, religion
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Matthew Arnold on the Bible as Literature
How did Matthew Arnold, in the light of the nineteenth century discoveries in science and the Higher Criticism, read the Bible? Answer: As literature and poetry. This from the excellent 1967 The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Volume 1, 168): [I]n Literature and Dogma (London, … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Bible, God, literature, matthew arnold, mythology, poetry, reason, religion, science, skepticism, the Bible
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Mental Health Break
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Tagged apologetics, Bible, Book of Job, debate, God, Job, the problem of suffering
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Robert Wright on Osiris, Jesus, Dives, and Lazarus
Robert Wright on the Egyptian god Osiris and the story of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke: Osiris bears a certain resemblance to Jesus as Christians would later come to conceive him; Osiris inhabited the afterworld and judged the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, dives and lazarus, Egypt, Egyptian gods, gospel of Luke, Jesus, lazarus, Luke, osiris, poor, rich
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Mental Health Break
Samson’s lament:
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Tagged 1960s, Bible, delilah and samson, Hebrew Bible, mental health break, music, religion, samson and delilah, tom jones
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“In three days, live!”: A Book Review of Israel Knohl’s “Messiahs and Resurrection in ‘The Gabriel Revelation'” (Continuum 2009)
Israel Knohl’s book, Messiahs and Resurrection in The Gabriel Revelation, is an important event for students of Christian origins, for it is the first book-length treatment, by a prominent biblical scholar, of an unusually important archaeological artifact: A recently discovered … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, archeology, Bible, book review, Christian origins, Christianity, gospel of Mark, Jesus, Messiah, messianism, religion, the gabriel revelation
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My Favorite Bible Verse?
Maybe Micah 6:8 in the King James Version. It has the quality of an elegant mathematical formula, a reduction of religion to elements that I, as an agnostic, can absorb and endorse: He hath shewed thee, O man, what is … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, apologetics, Bible, doubt, empathy, feminism, God, Jesus, justice, oscar wilde, ouroboros, the Bible
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Sonia Sotomayor and “Activist Judges”: Whether You’re Reading the Bible or Reading the Constitution, It’s All About the Framing, Baby!
Can the framers of the Constitution, and the framers of our religious texts, be themselves framed? Berkeley linguist George Lakoff explains why a phrase like “activist judge” exploits a naive notion of what it means to interpret a text (like the American Constitution). And … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Bible, biblical interpretation, Constitution, george lakoff, Politics, rhetoric, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court
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Scandal? When American Evangelical Christians Distribute the New Testament to Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan, are They Doing Something Wrong?
The following video clip from Al Jazeera is being touted as damning evidence that Evangelicals are abusing their positions, and violating their military missions, distributing copies of the New Testament to Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan: I’m an agnostic, but … Continue reading
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“Problems with Elisha and the Two She Bears”: A YouTube Video by Santi Tafarella
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Tagged 2 Kings 2:23-24, bears, Bible, elijah, elisha, God, Jesus, Old Testament, prophets, religion, she bears, suffering
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NOVA’s “Must See” Documentary on Contemporary Biblical Archeology
At the PBS website, the NOVA documentary, The Bible’s Buried Secrets, has become available on DVD. The program, through interviews with some of the most well-known biblical archeologists in the world, surveys the grand scope of the biblical narrative, from … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, apologetics, archeology, Bible, bible as literature, biblical inerrancy, Christianity, Hebrew Bible, James Dobson, Jesus, Judaism, religion
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“We’re a nation not just where you are free to believe or not to believe; we’re a nation founded for Him”: Rick Warren, Kathryn Jean Lopez, and the Theocratic Temptation
Kathryn Jean Lopez, of the National Catholic Register, offers a theocratic spin to the meaning of America (and Obama’s inauguration prayer): Rick Warren reminded us why all eyes were on the Capitol steps that Tuesday afternoon: “in His name.” We’re a … Continue reading
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Tagged authoritarianism, Bible, church and state, covenant, first amendment, Genesis, gospel of Matthew, James Dobson, Jesus, John Macarthur, religion, rick warren
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Today’s Question
If God created the universe, who created God?
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, Bible, Genesis, James Dobson, Jesus, John Macarthur, philosophy, religion, science
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Camille Paglia on the Bible and Jesus
At Salon.com today, Camille Paglia is asked by one of her readers what she thinks of the Bible, and the prophecies in the Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible) that were supposedly “fulfilled” by Jesus in the New Testament. Here’s what she … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, Bible, Camille Paglia, Christianity, evangelicals, gospels, James Dobson, Jesus, literature, Politics, rush limbaugh
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Biblical Scholar, Israel Knohl, is Coming Out with a Book on the Hazon Gabriel Discovery
The book, Messiahs and Resurrection in the Gabriel Revelation, discussing the implications of the recent discovery of an early 1st century BCE tablet that speaks of a Jesus-like resurrected Messiah BEFORE Jesus, is written by a prominent Israeli biblical scholar, Israel Knohl, and when it … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, Bible, Christianity, gospels, Hazon Gabriel, Israel Knohl, Jesus, New Testament, religion, resurrection
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What is an Etiological Narrative? And Might Confusion About Its Nature Be the Source for Fundamentalist Religion?
An etiological narrative is a story that purports to explain (in mythic, religious, or literary terms) the origin of something. It is, in other words, an imaginitive story triggered by a question about how (or why) something came to be in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, English, etiological narrative, Genesis, history, literature, myth, mythology, philosophy, poetry, religion, science
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NOVA’s “The Bible’s Buried Secrets” is a Must See Documentary for Those Interested in Learning About Contemporary Archeology’s Take on the Bible
I just watched, on PBS, the premier of NOVA’s documentary, The Bible’s Buried Secrets, and I highly recommend it. The program, through interviews with some of the most well-known biblical archeologists in the world, surveys the grand scope of the … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, apologetics, atheist, Bible, biblical archeology, Christianity, Jerusalem, Jesus, John Macarthur, Judaism, literature, nova
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Prometheus Unbound 