First and foremost a person should be intellectually honest with themselves when looking at the Torah and the Tanach. I say this for several reasons. The first reason is because the Torah, the one we have today, was not written by Moses. This is because the original Paleo-Hebrew Law “of” Moses was lost or […]
Pious Fraud and Lies
Exodus Did Not Happen*
Every history book and every time-line mentions the Exodus. The Exodus and Moses are mentioned in the Gospels by Jesus, the Quran, the Book of Mormon, and by Baha’u’llah. People just assume it is a fact. That assumption is based solely on the story told in the Torah, but what if it is wrong? […]
The Persistence of Myth – Noah Kennedy*
Recounting the story of a battle with American soldiers. While working on a chapter on Jerusalem during the British Mandate (1917-1948) I ran into one of the private micro-dramas I assume most writers run into and that I learned long ago nobody else is really interested in. But as I thought about it more, there seemed […]
The Bible Does Not Exist – John Shook
Denying that Jesus really existed is too easy. Not only wasn’t Jesus divine, he wasn’t even real. You have to be quite skeptical that one single human being was behind all those stories about this “Jesus” in the Bible. Going further, I’ve become skeptical about the Bible itself. Who will join me in denying that […]
Stealing Palestine: A study of historical and cultural theft – Roger Sheety
The cultural appropriation of books, music, art, cuisine and dress have been used by Zionists as a weapon against Palestinians Stealing and appropriating the culture and history of indigenous peoples is a typical characteristic of all modern colonial-settler states, but usually accomplished once the indigenous people in question has been eliminated, dispossessed, or otherwise seemingly […]
Biblical Contradictions – Dan Barker
This particular list was taken from an extract from Losing Faith In Faith: From Preacher to Atheist ” | Should we kill? Exodus 20:13 “Thou shalt not kill.” Leviticus 24:17 “And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.” vs Exodus 32:27 “Thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel, Put every man […]
AN APOSTATE TO JUDAISM – Staks Rosch
Last week, I went to the grocery store to do my weekly shopping, but when I returned home I realized that I missed out on getting five boxes of free matzah. That makes me a super bad Jew. It means that I forgot that Passover was coming up and that I missed out on free […]