The Bible’s Buried Secrets

Been seeing this topic—how much of the Bible can be confirmed by archaeology—a lot in blog-posts and conversations, of late. I watched this documentary when it was broadcast, and my only real problem with it was that it was such a short series.
—Daz

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Episode 1 – “Did King David’s Empire Exist?”

Episode 2 – “Did God have a Wife?”

Episode 3 – “The Real Garden of Eden”

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Damned Polyglots!

When they built the Tower of Babel as high as they were able,
The Lord above got in a fit of pique.
He scattered 'em round the lands, made sure they'd misunderstand
By confuddling the tongues which they did speak.

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Bedrock

"Oi Moses, get your chisel. I've got a few orders for you to take down. In far-future debates, I'd like your descendents to assert, ad-nauseam, that these commandments are the bedrock of their civilisation, so chisel 'em deep, okay.

"Ready? Here we go then…

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Acts Of Love

Try reading Exodus from the point of view of an Egyptian farmer, Genesis from the POV of a Shechemite's daughter. Try reading Joshua as a citizen of Jericho. Think what the destruction of Gomorrah felt like to a five-year-old. Imagine yourself as a parent, trying desperately to save your children from the Flood. Imagine you're one of Job's children, with the house flying apart around you in a wind-storm, seeing no way you're going to get out alive. What would it be like to die in agony in the act of child-birth, knowing that this is a curse set upon you to punish the actions of a woman who died thousands of years before you were born? How would it feel to hold your stillborn baby in your arms as the priest tells you that the baby's soul is consigned to Hell as a consequence of that original sin, because there wasn't time to baptise it?

All the acts, so we're told, of a loving god. Because… erm, he says so.

Hey, I've got this bridge for sale. Interested?
—Daz

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A Creationist Love Song

With apologies to Sam Cooke, Lou Adler and Herb Alpert.

Don't know squat about history.
Don't know any biology.
Don't remember any science I took.
In fact I only ever need one Book.

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Redemption

You are in a court room, watching the trial of a man who, a year ago, mugged you, forced you to empty your bank-account at a cash-machine, and, for good measure, beat you up so badly that you are now permanently wheelchair bound as well as destitute and homeless.

The man has pleaded guilty to all charges, but claims to have turned over a new leaf.

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Just Suppose

Found this rather interesting video, earlier. (I forget where I found the link, so apologies for not giving credit for that.)

I must admit, up front, that I don't really have a dog in this fight—whether an actual Jesus existed and so on being a rather different question than that of whether there's a god for him to have been a son of. I'm not much of a Biblical (and related material) scholar, either, so I can't really judge his hypothesis one way or the other. (And he doesn't, to give him credit, claim it's anything but a hypothesis.) That said, he does appear to raise some interesting questions and ideas about the history of the religion itself.

Anyway, here it is. Any thoughts, anyone?
—Daz

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Christ On A Cloth!

Here's another one of those silly pareidolia stories. Not that the pareidolia itself is that silly. Have a look:

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Just An Idea

Dear Gideon Society,

Having observed rather too many of your readers' efforts at communicating your message, I'd like, most humbly, to suggest that you switch your attention from supplying Bibles to something which they might find more useful. (See enclosed.)

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Cherry Pickin’

The Book of Saint Barry, verse three, clause two
Clearly shows it's a sin to lace the left shoe
Before tying the right, so it's plain to see
You should all lace your shoes, same way as me.

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