Atheist have been moving full speed ahead on becoming just like other religions, now including violent intolerance. The atheist rock festival coming to Fort Bragg to counterbalance the Billy Graham Crusade, Rock Beyond Belief, has an odd video posted from head liners Aiden. As a fan of heavy metal sentiments of F’ your god and [...]
Archive for January, 2012
The Morons of Rock
Posted in atheism, Pop Culture and Religion, tagged atheism, pop culture and religion on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Regarding A Quack’s Take on the Study of History
Posted in Jesus Myth, Religion, Uncategorized on January 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The following is response to a couple of post on a popular Mythicist blog and the counter post at, http://www.patheos.com/blogs/exploringourmatrix/2012/01/more-mythicist-misrepresentation.html I think Neil’s problem (among many) here is that he isn’t really interested in ancient history; he is interested in demonstrating the Bible is fiction. Neil apparently studied history in a traditional Von Ranke setting, [...]
Does Numbers 24:24 Date to the Hellenistic Era?
Posted in Biblical History, History of Israel, Kenites, Midian, Minimalism on January 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Recently I read a blog advocating Numbers 24 may contain material dating to the Greek or Roman periods of Judean history[1]. Does it? The argument it does is based primarily on interpreting Kittim to mean Greece or Italy as it does in 1 Maccabees or the Septuagint Daniel. If this is so, then what is [...]
