by Carl Howard | May 20, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Society
Today is Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, an initiative launched by a Seattle cartoonist as a response to the Comedy Central/Southpark/Mohammed cartoons/Mohammed in a bear suit nonsense. Apparently the creators have now dropped the gag after it became controversial. This...
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 14, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Medicine, Philosophy
Via Pharyngula, here’s an amazing video of an elephant’s birth which I invite you to watch before reading on. (If you’re reading this by email the video won’t render so here’s a link to it on YouTube) Let’s forget the drama of the calf appearing lifeless at first and...
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...
by Carl Howard | Apr 19, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
My last post about the obligation to execute genocide on Amalek reminded me of my school days when a friend would make fun of the original passage. Here is the text (from Deuteronomy 25): You shall remember what Amalek did to you on the way, when you went out of...
by Carl Howard | Apr 13, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
When we left Saul last, he was campaigning against the Philistines. Now he has a much easier task, direct from YHWH as reported by Samuel: that of attacking the nation of Amalek and killing all the men, women, children and livestock. Easy, right? Amalek is the most...
