Athiest Book of Bible Stories

by dozy 13 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • dozy
    dozy

    This is an excellent read - free PDF download. Basically points out a lot of inconsistencies in the bible. A lot of stuff I guess I knew already , but had just blanked it out. Also a lot of stuff I never knew. (Abel was a shepherd , at a time when no-one supposedly ate meat . Methusaleh died in the year of the flood , but not in the flood and was evidently not a righteous man , as was Lamech - Noah's father - how did I not pick up on that? ) So much for 40 years of bible study. One account reminded me when I was a young pioneer talking to a man about the value of bible standards & the guy just walked me through a couple of bloodthirsty accounts when the Israelites killed men , women , children & animals and kidnapped the virgins to themselves. I had no answer & looked desperately to my elder partner who just shrugged.

    http://www.box.com/shared/uclytd91jd

    I'm not quite a card carrying athiest as such (yet) but I did find this a really good read , especially as the author used to be a JW.

    What I found especially interesting was looking up the WTBTS material on the bible references , in the Insight book & other publications. Often the WTBTS never even mentions the discrepancies ( amazing how the WT index shows up several scriptures that are never mentioned in any WTBTS publication ) , but when they do , the JW buzzword word "evidently" (and its little brother "apparently" ) are very much in evidence and quotes from "bible scholars" that try , sometimes painfully , to explain away the inconsistencies. It reminds me of Franz's experience when he desperately in the Aid book tried to rubbish all the evidence that Jerusalem wasn't destroyed in 607 BCE.

  • ziddina
    ziddina

    Heh, heh...

    Thanks for posting that, Dozy!!

  • SweetBabyCheezits
    SweetBabyCheezits

    So far this is good stuff, dozy. Where'd you find it?

  • cantleave
    cantleave

    One of my favourite books - i have it on my iPhone, and read it when I am bored, It should be properly published and marketed.

  • SweetBabyCheezits
    SweetBabyCheezits

    Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing, cantleave. Anyone know the author?

  • AK - Jeff
    AK - Jeff

    Thanx for posting.

    I am at a point where I need no prompting to believe the bible is total bunk - both as a result of doing investigation into it while I still believed it and later - and because the entire idea of grown adults swallowing so much horseshit without question just makes me ill to think of it.

    Still, if time permits I want to look it over.

    Thanx again

    Jeff

  • poopsiecakes
    poopsiecakes

    I read this a few months ago and have it on my PC at home. Jeff, it's hilarious and very well written. You'll giggle like a schoolgirl.

  • SweetBabyCheezits
    SweetBabyCheezits

    Nevermind, I clearly forgot they made Google for computers now.

    This was written by a JWN member that goes by the handle RunningMan.

    http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/154236/1/The-Atheists-Book-of-Bible-Stories

  • ziddina
    ziddina

    Haw!!!

    I'm on page 33....

    I never realized there were THAT many contradictions in the bible....

    I always had my suspicions about all the magnificence attributed to "king solomon"... Sounded too much like scenes from the "Arabian Nights" to me, but... Wow...

    ALMOST makes me regret that I didn't pay more attention to the bible when I was a kid....

  • diamondiiz
    diamondiiz

    My favorite is the amount of metals used for the Salomon's temple which if melted into a cube would be larger than the temple itself! Runningman sure did a good job on it, very well presented and funny.

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