by Carl Howard | Jan 26, 2012 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Super-Abridged Bible
Nahum (Chapters 1-3) Nahum’s pronouncement against the [Assyrian capital] Nineveh: “YHWH is slow to anger but eventually becomes vengeful. He’s very powerful, being able to dry the sea and make mountains quake. Who can resist him? Why would you plot against him seing...
by Carl Howard | Jan 15, 2012 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Super-Abridged Bible
I’m going out of order a little but it was easier to expand my project to actual prophets with shorter books. In the Jewish Bible, these 12 prophets are called the “minor” prophets, because they form short books, and all 12 are treated as one full-length book. Here it...
by Carl Howard | Jan 4, 2012 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Science and Skepticism
The news are full of cases where very religious people do extremely ridiculous or cruel things. For example, there’s Javon Thompson, a 1 year old starved to death by his cult member family because he did not say “amen” during mealtime. Or more recently, a 7 year old...
by Carl Howard | Dec 16, 2011 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible, Feminism and LGBT
A story has made it to the news cycle about a week ago about an Afghan woman who is marrying the man who raped her. Via MSNBC: Gulnaz, who uses one name, has been in an Afghan prison cell for about two years. She says she only has one choice if she wants to bring...
by Carl Howard | Nov 28, 2011 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Philosophy
The question of definitions (what is an atheist vs agnostic) and all that nonsense have been popping up again. Especially the recent exchange between Larry Moran (here, here and here) and John Wilkins (here, here, here). Before I post on this I thought it might be...
by Carl Howard | Jun 24, 2011 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Super-Abridged Bible
This will be the last book I do for at least a few weeks so back to regular posts after this… Chapters 1-13: The life of Elisha the prophet King Ahaziah falls off the roof and sends messengers to ask the god Baal-zebub if he’ll recover. YHWH tells Elijah that Ahaziah...
