by Carl Howard | Jul 22, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
Quite a few things happen in these 2 chapters which I’ll breeze through. David hides from Saul in a cave system and Saul with his soldiers go in to pursue him. The first interesting point is that the text says Saul went to “cover his feet”. In the Hebrew Bible, the...
by Carl Howard | Jul 12, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible, Language, Science and Skepticism
I’ve been moving and in the pandemonium have stuffed up the schedule so you might have seen a half-baked version of this yesterday. Here’s the real thing! A recent episode of the Atheist Experience has made me aware of one of the most ridiculous arguments for...
by Carl Howard | Jul 1, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
The next few chapters contain some of the most advanced story-telling in the Bible, something worthy of authors paying attention. And I do mean story-telling. From my Completely UnbiasedTM reading, the odds of these having any kind of historical basis (even if David...
by Carl Howard | Jun 22, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
Advice on Scheming Now that David is properly fleeing from Saul, he concocts an interesting plan with Jonathan. Part one of the plan: David is absent from two consecutive dinners at Saul’s household. The first night Saul, thinks David’s just “unclean” from a seminal...
by Carl Howard | May 18, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
David and Jonathan As part of the public “debate” about homosexuality over the last few decades, some gay rights activists have claimed that the Bible is not as anti-gay as fundamentalists would believe. A staple modern discussions about homosexuality and the Bible is...
by Carl Howard | May 10, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
Epic literature often introduces the main character very late in the story. The book of Samuel is one such example: it is almost entirely about King David and yet we haven’t heard a peep about him for the first 15 chapters as instead we are given the “prologues” of...
