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NZSkep · 11-20-2009, 01:29 AM

Not sure if this has been linked to before, but I just found it and it is quite entertaining

http://yhwhy.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-...rritating.html

ranthony034 · 11-23-2009, 12:37 PM

I must be missing something...It's a joke, right?

Toto · 11-23-2009, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by ranthony034

I must be missing something...It's a joke, right?

I guess you are missing something. It's not a joke, although it is written with a late-night comic's sense of irony - e.g. if you are going to believe in something so manifestly stupid that people occasionally have to be burnt at the stake in order to be convinced of its legitimacy . . .

Why do you think it's a joke? Who is the joke on?

wavy_wonder1 · 11-23-2009, 01:52 PM

I agree to this with a whole heart:

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In truth, a layperson would be hard pressed to find a single real priest unable to name the four great streams of authorship behind the Torah’s sources: JEDP. And yet this knowledge simply does not find itself transmitted to the two groups that really matter: the great masses of religious people who have no detailed knowledge of religion and whose lives would be infinitely richer if they were freed from religion’s stupefying influence, and atheists who quite erroneously believe that a) owing to its mostly fictional nature, there is nothing inherently interesting in the Bible; b) feel that the way to counter a religious argument is to point out broad contradictions in the Bible without providing a concrete demonstration of how those contradictions arose and why they are useful in challenging faith.

And this is just downright hilarious:

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The Deuteronomist, quite possibly a man named Baruch, was an outright motherfucker who was convinced that God did not speak to people and that the world revolved around Jerusalem.

Finis,
ELB

squiz · 11-24-2009, 05:17 AM

I love a good rant.

Ktotwf · 11-28-2009, 03:47 AM

I have found the blog to be exceedingly well written so far.

gupwalla · 11-30-2009, 03:52 PM

http://yhwhy.blogspot.com/2009/11/x-...metaphors.html

Alexi has written his next installment, which is quite nice. Less source theory, much more science and linguistics this time.

I enjoy his irreverent take and look forward to any future installments.

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11-23-2009, 12:37 PM	#2
ranthony034 New Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 2	I must be missing something...It's a joke, right?

11-24-2009, 05:17 AM	#5
squiz Regular Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Munich Germany Posts: 434	I love a good rant.

11-28-2009, 03:47 AM	#6
Ktotwf Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Indiana Posts: 2,936	I have found the blog to be exceedingly well written so far.

11-30-2009, 03:52 PM	#7
gupwalla Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 79	http://yhwhy.blogspot.com/2009/11/x-...metaphors.html Alexi has written his next installment, which is quite nice. Less source theory, much more science and linguistics this time. I enjoy his irreverent take and look forward to any future installments.

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