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"SReeseMe" |
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02 Oct 2003 07:11:02 PM |
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What's wrong with the Skeptic's Annotated Bible? |
Hi everyone.
There have been several posts here regarding the SAB, most of them unfavorable.
So I went to the SAB site and checked it out for myself. I didn't see
anything wrong with it, what am I missing? To be fair I only read parts of
Genesis and Mark so its not like I carefully studied the whole thing. Other
than a tendency to nitpick here and there I thought it does a good job of
pointing out the contradictions and cruelty of "the good book."
If anyone can get my up to speed on the SAB please do so.
Thanks!
-Stephen
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| User: "Claytons So Vain...I Probably Think This Newsgroups About Me" |
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| Title: Re: What's wrong with the Skeptic's Annotated Bible? |
02 Oct 2003 08:30:34 PM |
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"SReeseMe" <sreeseme@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20031002201102.21615.00000171@mb-m02.aol.com...
Hi everyone.
There have been several posts here regarding the SAB, most of them
unfavorable.
So I went to the SAB site and checked it out for myself. I didn't see
anything wrong with it, what am I missing? To be fair I only read parts
of
Genesis and Mark so its not like I carefully studied the whole thing.
Other
than a tendency to nitpick here and there I thought it does a good job of
pointing out the contradictions and cruelty of "the good book."
If anyone can get my up to speed on the SAB please do so.
Thanks!
-Stephen
There's nothing wrong with SAB. It was just another fuckwit apologist who
thought saying "But God did it!" makes the Bible inerrant and wipes out all
biblical stupidity.
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| User: "Martin Thomas" |
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| Title: Re: What's wrong with the Skeptic's Annotated Bible? |
03 Oct 2003 10:39:24 PM |
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On 03 Oct 2003 00:11:02 GMT, (SReeseMe) wrote:
Hi everyone.
There have been several posts here regarding the SAB, most of them unfavorable.
So I went to the SAB site and checked it out for myself. I didn't see
anything wrong with it, what am I missing?
You obviously have a few rocks missing from your head.
To be fair I only read parts of
Genesis and Mark so its not like I carefully studied the whole thing. Other
than a tendency to nitpick here and there I thought it does a good job of
pointing out the contradictions and cruelty of "the good book."
If you ask G nicely, he'll put them back - that way you won't
have to worry about any of those contradictions again.
If anyone can get my up to speed on the SAB please do so.
Thanks!
-Stephen
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Martin Thomas
mart666t@netscape.NO.HAWKERS.net
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| User: "Levy Oates" |
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| Title: Re: What's wrong with the Skeptic's Annotated Bible? |
03 Oct 2003 01:42:01 AM |
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On 03 Oct 2003 00:11:02 GMT, (SReeseMe) wrote:
Hi everyone.
There have been several posts here regarding the SAB, most of them unfavorable.
So I went to the SAB site and checked it out for myself. I didn't see
anything wrong with it, what am I missing? To be fair I only read parts of
Genesis and Mark so its not like I carefully studied the whole thing. Other
than a tendency to nitpick here and there I thought it does a good job of
pointing out the contradictions and cruelty of "the good book."
If anyone can get my up to speed on the SAB please do so.
Thanks!
-Stephen
There's nothing wrong with it. It's an excellent resource.
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Archdeacom Levy Oates
On behalf of the Prophet Eric Peabody (pbuh)
Basingstoke, England
http://www.angelfire.com/alt/bumblism/
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| User: "Mike Painter" |
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| Title: Re: What's wrong with the Skeptic's Annotated Bible? |
03 Oct 2003 09:13:56 PM |
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"Levy Oates" <levy_oates@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ng6qnvcra2ndgpshv5ftpqiop1vvmri2ub@4ax.com...
On 03 Oct 2003 00:11:02 GMT, (SReeseMe) wrote:
Hi everyone.
There have been several posts here regarding the SAB, most of them
unfavorable.
So I went to the SAB site and checked it out for myself. I didn't see
anything wrong with it, what am I missing? To be fair I only read parts
of
Genesis and Mark so its not like I carefully studied the whole thing.
Other
than a tendency to nitpick here and there I thought it does a good job of
pointing out the contradictions and cruelty of "the good book."
If anyone can get my up to speed on the SAB please do so.
Thanks!
-Stephen
There's nothing wrong with it. It's an excellent resource.
The search engine is not as good as I'd like. I use
http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible to look things up then go to SAB to read
and see the notes if need be.
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| User: "Alex" |
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| Title: Re: What's wrong with the Skeptic's Annotated Bible? |
04 Oct 2003 10:30:03 AM |
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On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 02:13:56 GMT, "Mike Painter" <mdotpainter@att.net>
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The search engine is not as good as I'd like. I use
http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible to look things up then go to SAB to read
and see the notes if need be.
I agree. The person who designed it didn't do too good of a job. I
would hope he'd update it by now.
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| User: "Gregory A Greenman" |
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| Title: Re: What's wrong with the Skeptic's Annotated Bible? |
04 Oct 2003 10:49:48 PM |
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On 03 Oct 2003 00:11:02 GMT, SReeseMe
said...
Hi everyone.
There have been several posts here regarding the SAB, most of them unfavorable.
So I went to the SAB site and checked it out for myself. I didn't see
anything wrong with it, what am I missing? To be fair I only read parts of
Genesis and Mark so its not like I carefully studied the whole thing. Other
than a tendency to nitpick here and there I thought it does a good job of
pointing out the contradictions and cruelty of "the good book."
If anyone can get my up to speed on the SAB please do so.
The problem is there's a bit of confusion over what is
meant by the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.
You are probably referring to this site:
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/
To the best of my knowledge, that is the original SAB. And,
if that's what you're referring to, you're quite right,
there's nothing wrong with it.
A few weeks ago, Jason Gastrich started posting to AA. He
came in here telling us that he'd answer all our questions
about the bible. He's studying at some sham college to get
a sham PhD (IIRC) in divinity. Despite the fact that he's
pretty much devoted a good chunk of his life to studying
religion, he seemed to know even less than the typical
fundy that we get in here. Every time someone asked him
about something in the bible, he'd have to ask for a
reference.
His lack of biblical knowledge is especially astounding
because he wrote "The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected
and Explained". I believe that this was in response to the
SAB cited above. Unfortunately, he stole the name and so
now, when you mention SAB, some people think you mean the
first one and other's think you mean Gastrich's.
Here's the site for SAB:C&E:
http://skepticsannotatedbible.org/
Here's Gastrich's vanity site:
http://jasongastrich.com/
Look out Californians, he might be your next governor.
And here are a couple of organizations that Gastrich
founded:
http://www.jcsm.org/
http://www.occm.org/
The latter is an organization of fundy web sites. If you go
to the "Our Members" page, I especially like the
description of Proclaiming The Gospel Ministries:
PTG was designed to lead Roman Catholics to saving faith
in Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. We
also offer valuable information for those desiring to
reach family and friends who have been blinded from the
truth of the Gospel by Catholic Traditions.
Evangelist Mike Gendron has written "Preparing Catholics
For Eternity", which is a book that will equip and
encourage Christians to proclaim the glorious Gospel of
grace to Catholics and also persuade Roman Catholics to
trust the Word of God over the teachings and traditions
of their church.
Also, on the SAB web site
(http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/), they have an
audio debate between Gastrich and Dan Barker. Dan Barker is
a former preacher that came to realize that he was
preaching a myth. I especially enjoyed the part where
Gastrich talks about how people became corrupt because they
had sex with angels. It's hard to believe that a person
like that is capable of feeding himself.
Greg the Reprobate
Missionary of Death
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greg -at- spencersoft -dot- com
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| User: "lizzard woman" |
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| Title: Re: What's wrong with the Skeptic's Annotated Bible? |
04 Oct 2003 11:04:51 PM |
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"Gregory A Greenman" <see@sig.below> wrote in message
news:MPG.19e951c0c4825e30989ac3@netnews.comcast.net...
(...snip...)
Despite the fact that he's
pretty much devoted a good chunk of his life to studying
religion, he seemed to know even less than the typical
fundy that we get in here. (snip)
and
(...snip...)
His lack of biblical knowledge is especially astounding
because he wrote "The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected
and Explained".
These are two very good points.
I have only been reading this group for a few months but it seems to me that
if this guy, who argues like an 8 year old (I know... I have two of them) is
typical of this ilk, I don't know how he even manages to keep up with the
other Divinity PhD candidates. If they have prelims, and if they have any
sense of the ridiculous (and maybe they don't), I predict he will not pass.
It is insulting to call that bilge scholarship, even in the field of
divinity. The animals on the ark were "babies, etc. etc..
--
sharon, aa #2153
"(of creationism) ... Only apocryphal tales told by goat herders around the
campfire after it became too dark to continue to molest their charges." --
TvG (Rec.Equestrian, 2003)
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: What's wrong with the Skeptic's Annotated Bible? |
02 Oct 2003 09:05:31 PM |
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On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 00:11:02 +0000, SReeseMe wrote:
Hi everyone.
There have been several posts here regarding the SAB, most of them unfavorable.
You must be talking about the Gastrich twit who's running around trolling
the ng lately.
Ignore him, he's an idiot...
--
Mark K. Bilbo
From alt.atheism only
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| User: "Adam Marczyk" |
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| Title: Re: What's wrong with the Skeptic's Annotated Bible? |
03 Oct 2003 11:59:59 AM |
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SReeseMe <sreeseme@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20031002201102.21615.00000171@mb-m02.aol.com...
Hi everyone.
There have been several posts here regarding the SAB, most of them
unfavorable. So I went to the SAB site and checked it out for myself.
I didn't see anything wrong with it, what am I missing? To be fair I
only read parts of Genesis and Mark so its not like I carefully studied
the whole thing. Other than a tendency to nitpick here and there I
thought it does a good job of pointing out the contradictions and
cruelty of "the good book." If anyone can get my up to speed on the SAB
please do so. Thanks!
I don't think there's anything wrong with the SAB - on the contrary, I've
found it to be an excellent resource. Granted, it takes a "shotgun" kind of
approach to criticizing the Bible, and some of the contradictions it lists
are more easily resolved than others, but I don't blame it for being
comprehensive. That just means *you* have to know what you're talking about
before you cite it, and that is a good thing.
--
"I'm materialist | a.a. #2001
Call me a humanist | http://www.ebonmusings.org
I guess I'm full of doubt | e-mail: ebonmuse!hotmail.com
So I'll gladly have it out with you..." | ICQ: 8777843
--Bad Religion, "Materialist" | PGP Key ID: 0x5C66F737
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