PETE_ROSE Wrote:Minimalist Wrote:I read the Skeptics Annotated Bible - except for the relentless genealogies which I skipped over. Sick shit. Takes a real primitive mind to write crap like that and a real dumbass to believe any of it.
Primitive mind? Min have you read Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Proverbs, or Hebrews from the NT? Very eloquently written.
Yes, they are quite a change of pace from the rest of the Bible. The S.A.B. does tend to focus on pointing out the contradictions and moral quandaries, not the best way to read it the first time if you want to appreciate it as literature, IMHO. Like reading too many reviews beforehand can spoil a movie. There are plenty of examples of jaw-dropping barbarity in the Bible, but it's not through-and-through.
Fun fact: The Song of Solomon/Song of Songs does not mention God once.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.