I was listening to KLRU today and they had a bit about this. The concept is pretty simple: “I want to find out what happens when an ignorant person actually reads the book on which his religion is based.” The author, or in this case the blogger, is a faithful but scripturally ignorant Jew whose goal was to read the Old Testament without any sort of guide from book, friend, or religious teacher just to see what stood out. Just to give ya’ll a few samples:
Does the Lord love insects best? They’re so nice He made them twice: On Day 5 He makes “the living creatures of every kind that creep.” Three verses, and 24 hours later, He makes “all kinds of creeping things of the earth.”
3:12: When God quizzes Adam about eating from the tree, he immediately—and I mean immediately—sells out Eve. “The woman You put at my side—she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” What kind of husband is this? He’s supposed to be her master, but he won’t even take responsibility for his own weakness?
Anyway, it sounded interesting from the on-air interview, so if anyone has any interest in reading or rereading the Old Testament with some quirky commentary, check out David Plotz’s Blogging the Bible.
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1 bill // Jun 22, 2007 at 10:29 am
Gotta love the literal ‘word of God’ types. You can’t touch pork, you must stone people to death for minor infractions. Multiple versions of absolute truth which conflict with each other all are true.
All Hail Gallileo, patron saint of Physics, who learned that logic and reason are trumped by Power.
Thanks for the link, I will send it along to my men’s group.
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