October 8, 2007
Christianity 2.0
Good to see religion doesn’t necessarily mean being stuck in the dark ages. Now if someone can just update the bible, we’d be set.
Oh wait, that’s being done too…
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August 27, 2007
Ricky Gervais, Creationist
Ricky Gervais on Creationism (taking the piss, of course…). He even opens with a disclaimer:
Some of the things you’ll hear do sound a little bit far fetched, I’ll admit that. But then I found out that the other name for the bible is “The Gospel”. So it is all true. Luckily, the clue is in the title.
Ahh… the old “the bible’s true because it says so” argument… put much more eloquently, of course.
Link to Video
(Via Luke Pilarski)
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August 1, 2007
20 gram Links for July 31st ’07
Here are some of the sites I’ve been looking at recently, that I wanted to share:
- 7 Proofs That We Live in a Computer Simulation – or Why Proofs of Gods Existance Are Unconvicing
- Why I took so long to accept evolution – a.k.a. Why every christian should read their own bible. “part of what helped me along was actually reading the Bible in high school, being horrified by much of it”
- denialism blog : I can has souls? – There is a god, and it’s a cat.
- Religion and Sexual Ethics – A nice summary of the moral position of various religions. Interesting to compare catholicism and buddhism side by side! (I think I’m with the Buddhists, here)
- LOL cat Bible – Personally, I hate this pathetic LOLspeak crap, although this picture is funny… “In teh beginning, Invisible Man make univerz. Invisible Man say, I can has light. Gots light.”
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July 25, 2007
Praise The Lord For All The Cash I’ve Got
I saw this clip on TV tonight (The Chaser, an Australian comedy show, are playing repeats at the moment), and I thought it was funny. If you haven’t heard of these guys, I suggest you check out their show (currently taking a break) – you can download it at the ABC website.
Let me hear you say “I will empty the contents of my wallet into that little collection plate when it comes around…. hallelujah!”
Oh, and if you liked that, you might also like this:
VIDEO: What Have We Learned From History?
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July 22, 2007
20 gram Links for July 21st ’07
Here are some of the sites I’ve been looking at recently, that I wanted to share:
- Prince Of Peace – God Of War Gets First Review And A Release Date – A film by John Campea (of The Movie Blog) about Christianity and the war in Iraq. The first five minutes are available in the post.
- Ten reasons why beer is better than Jesus – and #11. Beer tastes better…
- The Ultimate Spoiler… – Don’t click this link if you don’t like finding out how the book ends (but… come on, you know you want to click it)
- The Primate Diaries: Today’s Math Lesson – The differences between fundamentalists and moderate believers and atheists.
- Actus Formalis Defectionis Ab Ecclesia Catholica instrument of debaptism – The “Actus Formalis Defectionis Ab Ecclesia Catholica” (that document you can use to ask to be “debaptised” from the Catholic Church – NOW IN ENGLISH!
- BibleMap.org – Want to know where all those places the bible talks about actually ARE? Look no further…
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July 16, 2007
Misquoting Jesus
I just came across a review of a book I’ve been reading off and on for the last month or so – Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why – on a couple of different sites. The review itself (at Powell’s Books) gives a nice summary of Bart Ehrman’s arguments regarding the impossible task of obtaining and understanding the “original texts” of the bible.
Many people have a vague notion that all the original biblical texts are preserved in vaults somewhere, and translators work from those original texts. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case. The earliest surviving versions of the gospels are handwritten copies dating from centuries after the original texts were written. Also, we don’t just have a single version of each gospel; we have many versions, and even more fragments. The trouble is, none of the versions agree with each other.1
If you haven’t read the book, I’d highly recommend it. Dawkins even mentions it in his recent “God Delusion” (so, it’s gotta be good, right?). Ehrman details many specific examples of differences between versions of the biblical texts, and also examines how the specific books were chosen and compiled.
Also, if there’s any Christians reading this – please, tell me – how DO you reconcile the problems Ehrman mentions? Were all of the copies of the bible divinely inspired? Was there one particular version that was divinely inspired? Please… I’m dying to know!
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- Brown, Doug (2007) Review of Misquoting Jesus, Powell’s Books [↩]
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