by VorJack
Via Game Blend, a new video game is coming out that is based … excuse me, “based” on the Book of Enoch:
El Shaddai: Ascension Of The Megatron Breathtaking Debut Trailers
The book of Enoch was one of the coolest books of the Bible no one ever got to read in the original KJV. Nevertheless, Ignition [...]
by VorJack
If you want to understand the history of Israel, look at a map. For some reason, God placed his chosen people on land in a very bad neighborhood. In ancient times, the kingdoms of Northern Israel and Judah were stuck between the three greatest world powers of the day: Egypt, Mesopotamia and [...]
We often hear how intolerant and crazy the fundies of Christianity and Islam are… but we don’t talk too much about Jews. However, they have their fundies too, and if you replace a few words here and there, they sound exactly like the others.
Recently 1,000 rabbis warned that homosexuality in the military may cause further natural [...]
by VorJack
In a previous post I discussed the way I think that some people, mainly Liberal Christians, misuse the historical Jesus. Wishing to divorce the historical Jesus from the church, they accurately declare that Jesus had nothing to do with setting up the religion that bears his name. However, in attempting to explain [...]
By Vorjack
Marriage in the Bible, Part 4
Let’s take a look at Genesis 4:1:
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.” (RSV)
If you stop and think about it, that one line has a number of problems. Just what kind [...]
by VorJack
I’d thought I heard them all, until I ran across this parenthetical comment in Amy-Jill Levine’s The Misunderstood Jew:
I have twice been asked, each time by nice, silver-haired Protestant women, where I had my horns removed. The women, neither of whom had ever met a Jew before but both of whom had read [...]
Hilarious advice to the Abrahamic religions by Marcus Brigstocke: