Forgetting an unlettered moron like Dripshit for a while, let's see what Robert Price has to say:
No gods, no miracles, no heroes, dripshit. Just poor old silly you out there clinging to your bible and your dick.
Quote:For a long time, Christians bragged how archaeological discoveries confirmed the biblical history in instance after instance. Only recently have we realized that this was an illusion created by people like William Foxwell Albright, a devout Presbyterian who set out to vindicate the accuracy of the Bible, not exactly an objective approach. He would find some site and match it up with something in the Bible on the assumption that the Bible must be right (“ Ruins of a city in the Dead Sea? Must be Sodom!”).
Since then, the situation has reversed itself in a dramatic way. Any would-be defender of the historical accuracy of the Old Testament is out on a creaking limb, sitting next to the defender of the Book of Mormon with its tales of Israelites in ancient America. It’s a lost cause. It’s time to get real. There was no historical exodus, no liberation of a group of Hebrew slaves from Egypt led by Moses, Charlton Heston, or anyone else. You can’t even strip away the Technicolor of miracles and call what remains “history.” It is a simple matter of archaeological evidence. The trouble is, there isn’t any. Pick any of the possible routes from Egypt, through the Sinai desert, and into Canaan proposed by scholars. Pick either of the suggested dates, 1200 B.C.E. or 1450 B.C.E. It’s just not going to work because a mass migration of people and animals such as the Bible depicts must and will leave behind a great amount of detritus, and there is none. We have infrared aerial photography capable of detecting ancient caravan routes though featureless deserts, and yet technology reveals no sign of the passage of the Bible characters. What could have happened, you ask? Uh, maybe God sent down an angelic clean-up crew like they do after tickertape parades through Manhattan, and they vacuumed up all the evidence? Just like Satan fabricated and planted all those dinosaur bones to dupe us into believing in evolution? Most of the Old Testament “history” of Israel now appears to be nationalistic fiction, what G. Ernest Wright called “a theology of recital,”
Price, Robert M.. Holy Fable: The Old Testament Undistorted by Faith (p. 59). Tellectual Press. Kindle Edition.
No gods, no miracles, no heroes, dripshit. Just poor old silly you out there clinging to your bible and your dick.
