... but I just have to share this website I just Stumbled Upon: The Skeptic's Annotated Bible. I was laughing out loud and snorting loud enough that I was afraid I was going to wake up The Muse. Case in point:
"And Cain knew his wife." That's nice, but where the hell did she come from? 4:17
Noah is called a "just man and perfect," but he didn't seem so perfect when he was drunk and naked in front of his sons (9:20-21). 6:9, 7:1
God swears to himself. 22:16
"He washed his garments in wine ... His eyes shall be red with wine."
Did Judah really wash his clothes in wine? Were his eyes bloodshot from drinking too much? Or is this a prophecy of Jesus? (I didn't know Jesus had a drinking problem.) 49:11-12
And that's just Genesis. So. Going. To. Hell.
P.S. One more:
"Be careful what you eat during these animal sacrifices. Don't eat fat or blood -- these are for God. (And he doesn't like to share!) 7:18-27"
For some ungodly reason I just seemed to hear Frankenberry's voice saying that last little aside when I read it. *snort*
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First of all, there's no hell to go to. It's never actually mentioned anywhere in the old testament at all, and I don't think it's in the new, either.
Second, I've read that after so many translations, the bible is merely the oldest game of telephone, since Hebrew and Aramaic rarely translate easily. Meaning that the whole washing clothes in wine part probably originally said "he drank himself into a wine bath."
Posted by Steven | August 19, 2008 10:45 AM
Posted on August 19, 2008 10:45