Bible

Overview

The Bible is at the center of many controversies.

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Reference

• Wikipedia
• Skeptic's Annotated Bible: uses illustrations from The Brick Testament
• The Brick Testament: the Bible illustrated using Legos
  • According to a comment on Contrary Brin [1], "The site's author is an atheist, and the depictions of the Biblical scenes are mainly intended to point out how archaic and immoral the actions of everyone involved are compared to modern standards. This hasn't prevented the site from being popular with fundies, as the scenes are completely faithful to the Biblical passages, and the irony sails over their heads completely. Check out the passages from Leviticus, and you'll see what I'm talking about. They're pure comic gold."
  • Warning: some scenes not family-friendly (largely because of the source material)

Quotes

"The Bible may be an arresting and poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give your children to form their morals." – Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (excerpted here)

Arguments

• The Bible is not a source of moral authority at Issuegroups

Notes

Interpretations of Biblical Stories

A member (not an official) of the LDS church interprets the "incident in the book of Judges" (probably referred to in the first video here) as something not sanctioned by God. "The whole book of Judges, as its own introduction points out, was a belief summary of hundreds of years of Judiac history where the people were not following God, did not have a prophet and were not specifically writing down God's word and direction."

Satire

New Revised Tower of Babel

5 But the LORD came down to see the civilization that the men were building. 6 The LORD said, "If as one people understanding the same reasoning they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their reasoning so they will not understand each other."

8 So the LORD gave them different faiths and creeds, and with each a separate reasoning and understanding, and scattered their thoughts from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the civilization and fell to warring. 9 That is why it was called Babel – because there the LORD confused the reasoning of the whole world. 10 From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth that they might never speak with understanding to one another.