☞ Every Sunday I put out a curated list of the week’s most interesting stories in infosec, technology, and humans. You can subscribe to it here. Similarities to Other Stories Unavoidable Contradictions The Logical Explanation SIMILARITIES TO OTHER STORIES The similarities between the stories and characters in the Bible and those from previous mythologies […]
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The Abraham Myth – Peter J. Leithart
Evangelicals are debating the historicity of Adam, but they are too timid. It is time to reject fundamentalist distortions of the Abrahamic narrative just as decisively as we have abandoned literalistic readings of Genesis 1–3. Clinging to discredited biblical accounts of Abraham as if these events actually happened makes us look like Neanderthals, undermines the […]
Sumerian Mythology – Samuel Noah Kramer – pdf
The Oldest Codes of Law in the World – C. H. W Johns – pdf
Folk-Lore in the Old Testament – Vol 3 – Sir James George Frazer – pdf
Folk-Lore in the Old Testament – Vol 2 – Sir James George Frazer – pdf
The Old Testament, Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law – Vol 1 – Sir James George Frazer – pdf
The Bible Unmasked (The Bible that is Never Quoted) – Sri Rama Ramanuja Achari pdf
Emotion and Logic – Dr Jason Long
Since we can see that childhood indoctrination, threats of punishment, cultural isolation, biased argumentation, cognitive dissonance, low self-esteem, and low intelligence lead people to illogical conclusions about religion, the question should now become how to undo the effects of some of these phenomena. One of the primary findings of persuasive psychology is that, outside […]
Biblical Absurdity at its Finest – Dr Jason Long
No reader can truthfully deny that multitudes of curious occurrences are readily observable in the Bible. To a Christian believer, these strange events are nothing more than the mysterious ways of God. To a freethinker, the alleged phenomena are an indicative subset of the widespread superstitious beliefs held by our ancestors. There are […]