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Great advice!

March 24, 2009 by Critical Mass
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I'd like to see these kinds of signs being mandated on churches, along with these signs on the bibles:

Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them)

March 18, 2009 by Critical Mass
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Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus left off, Jesus, Interrupted addresses the larger issue of what the New Testament actually teaches—and it's not what most people think. Here Ehrman reveals what scholars have unearthed:

The authors of the New Testament have diverging views about who Jesus was and how salvation works

The New Testament contains books that were forged in the names of the apostles by Christian writers who lived decades later

Jesus, Paul, Matthew, and John all represented fundamentally different religions

Established Christian doctrines—such as the suffering messiah, the divinity of Jesus, and the trinity—were the inventions of still later theologians

Divine Comedy

March 3, 2009 by Critical Mass
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Jon Andrew Davis' 'Divine Comedy' exhibition is a collection of blasphemous, internet meme citing whimsical looks at religious topics.

Below are some gems...

By far my favourite is the Ghostbusters vs Jesus painting.

"I ain't 'fraid o no holy ghost!"



Then there's the Jonestown Cool Aid, with a splash of holy water to wash it down.

Nothing get's rid o' the demons like a jones and holy on the rocks!

Are your morals in line with the bible?

February 25, 2009 by Critical Mass
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Your morality is 0% in line with that of the bible.

Damn you heathen! Your book learnin' has done warped your mind. You shall not be invited next time I sacrifice a goat.

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I've gotta say, I'm quite proud of that score, though I think some of the questions may have been a little biased ;)

Thanks to gotcaffeine of This Blog Contains Caffeine

Magic in the Biblical World: From the Rod of Aaron to the Ring of Solomon Edited by Todd Kultz

January 22, 2009 by Ian Woolf
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I found this great review of a scholarly look at all the magical shenanigans in the Bible. There are a lot of divinations and wonder workings for a document that forbids magic so harshly. Joseph practices oneiromancy, the divination of dreams, and he's the hero, so its not forbidden. Moses has a wizard battle with the Pharoah's wizard's and works the same wonders as the Egyptian magicians. Jesus does some faith healing, some necromancy (raising the dead), and goes on to perform the multiplying fishes and loaves, then closes with the classic water to wine trick. Then he turns to the camera and says "all that I have done, you shall do, and more!".

The Bible and Spade - a fundamentalist Biblical archaeology journal

December 6, 2008 by Russell Hobson
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Here is a very amusing biblical archaeology journal written from a fundamentalist/creationist perspective:

http://www.biblearchaeology.org/publications/bibleandspade.aspx

I can't tell for sure, but I think it's serious. Perhaps this is a good resource for our 6 day creationist friend Marc Kay...

Some of my favourite quotes from the 'sample issue' 19(4):2006

 

On that evil pseudo-science, geology:

"the Flood is a very plausible triggering mechanism for the Ice Age, which required a set of unique and simultaneous circumstances unexplainable by uniformitarian principles"

 

On dinosaurs and why they're no longer with us:

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