The Skeptic Annotated Bible edition by Steve Wells Religion Spirituality eBooks
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"Finally, Wells has published his famous online resource in book form. This volume belongs in every thinking person's library--and in every hotel room in America..."
Sam Harris, author of the New York Times bestsellers The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, and Free Will.
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"A stunning achievement ... I have an entire bookshelf of bibles and biblical commentaries, concordances, appendices, and the like, but the SAB is by far the best tool for biblical research I have ever come across." --- Dr. Michael Shermer, Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine and Executive Director of the Skeptics Society
"I've been waiting for this book for my entire life! Finally, the Bible with organized notes and critique--pointing out the profane, the craziness, the tribalism, the murder, the incestuous episodes, and the beautiful and the sublime. All in one book!" --Julia Sweeney, Writer and performer of "Letting Go of God" and "God Said Ha!" and the book, "If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother"
"The Skeptic's Annotated Bible offers an invaluable presentation of the bible that doesn't hide the cruelties, contradictions, absurdities, misogyny, and everything else that makes the 'Good Book' bad. It is an indispensable resource and the only book I keep on my desk." --Dr. Peter Boghossian, Dept. of Philosophy, Portland State University. Author of "A Manual for Creating Atheists"
The Skeptic Annotated Bible edition by Steve Wells Religion Spirituality eBooks
This is legitimately the Bible with commentary pointing out all of the absurdity. Considering my religious background (Southern Baptist) and the fact that I've actually read the Bible before from cover to cover, I can't help but laugh at myself given all the things pointed out in the Bible that I honestly just either blindly accepted as truth or skimmed over without question. I was raised on the KJV and some of the scripture itself I read was so ridiculous, I actually pulled out multiple versions of the Bible while reading for cross reference and the message was legitimately the same. It kind of disturbed me how much I was willing to overlook to be honest. I think the format of the scriptures in this book, broken down to a few lines of scripture at a time make it easier to really take note of what's happening and analyse it.This honestly makes you think. I bought this after it was pointed out stories in the Bible were aligned with myths from the same region. After reading this, I honestly don't care anymore. The whole thing...just read this please. Even if you are not inclined to believe that the Bible isn't a legitimate text describing God, I encourage you to take a peek. Because if you are truly supposed to be well equipped to reach out to others for Christ, there are a whole lot of points in here that won't easily be combated with "Well, faith".
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The Skeptic Annotated Bible edition by Steve Wells Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
This has been nothing if not an eye opening read. As an atheist I'd always had a latent interest in reading the Bible, but had never felt like committing to doing so. The annotations here have been helpful in not only pointing out inconsistencies, but also explaining context that I might have skipped over had I been trying to wade through the text alone.
While I am still in the Old Testament, I feel that what I've read so far is just a mashup of various unrelated stories - hardly any of which have a moral foundation or any real meaning. I think that a good follow on to this book would be something to explain the origin of some of these stories and why they were deemed to be important enough by the original authors to be included. As it is I'm left with the impression that if a good editor were handed the Bible, it would be a vastly smaller work.
Having been raised in a very fundamentalist christian denomination and over the years coming to disbelieve. I found this bible to be very freeing. Not freeing to disbelieve but freeing to not be oppressed. Reading this bible I find myself shaking my head thinking how could I have un-questioningly believed so much non-sense. What really gets me while reading this is how parents could teach their children that this is the infallible word of a god.
That this murderous, vengeful, vindictive god is love. To teach a child that they are born evil and full of sin and the only thing that saves them is a bloody cruel sacrifice to appease this god is an horrendous thing to do. If you are someone that has spent years trying to shake what you were taught from the bible, read this version. I hope it will help you as much as it has me. I gave a copy to my sister and her results were the same as mine.
I read the bible at age 9. The ENTIRE thing. I wanted to read all of the stuff that made me laugh at the church people since I was 6. It took about a year. I read it again when I was 27 and again at 38. I just finished this book and decided I have pretty much the same opinion I did when I was 6, albeit a more educated and hopefully more tolerant. The opinion I had then and do now is that the bible.... both versions.... old and new and all of its' many incarnations are the biggest load of crap that has ever been written. This version however is NOT crap. The author goes to great lengths to show just why the others are.
Not sure which comedian said religion has always been an insecure persons attempt at controlling the weather but any sane person should realize that all of it is nonsense. Please realize this soon. You've been screwing up the planet for much too long.
Read the bible. Then read this version. If you still "believe," get help.
Although a well put-together work, as a life-long atheist, I didn't find anything in here that was new to me. Whole shelves of books on Biblical analysis have dealt (often in great detail) with skeptical positions on pretty much every point raised in this volume. I was tempted to only give four stars for that reason. On the other hand, I didn't want to slight a book which obviously took a tremendous amount of work to assemble simply because -I- already have a library of atheist writings. And indeed, this book provides a very handy single-volume reference for material which would otherwise have to be searched out over many books.
The book is printed in Biblical format -- parallel columns -- with the Biblical text on one side of the page, and the skeptical deconstruction on the other. The author identifies various categories of issue contradictions; injustices; cruelties; conflicts with science; etc., points them out in the Biblical context, and then explains clearly -why- he chose to so categorize them. Perhaps most importantly, this book allows these skeptical arguments to be related to the Biblical text /in context/, which is much preferable to (and more scholarly than) merely criticizing isolated passages of the Bible.
Of course few Biblical literalists are likely to be swayed from their beliefs by this (or, indeed any other) skeptical book. But those believers who feel that parts of the Bible are allegorical may find this analysis interesting, and perhaps even helpful. And for skeptical freethinkers, its a handy reference to use when having a Bible discussion or debate. If you were only going to have one skeptical religious reference on your shelf, The Skeptic's Annotated Bible would definitely be one of the better choices you could make.
This is legitimately the Bible with commentary pointing out all of the absurdity. Considering my religious background (Southern Baptist) and the fact that I've actually read the Bible before from cover to cover, I can't help but laugh at myself given all the things pointed out in the Bible that I honestly just either blindly accepted as truth or skimmed over without question. I was raised on the KJV and some of the scripture itself I read was so ridiculous, I actually pulled out multiple versions of the Bible while reading for cross reference and the message was legitimately the same. It kind of disturbed me how much I was willing to overlook to be honest. I think the format of the scriptures in this book, broken down to a few lines of scripture at a time make it easier to really take note of what's happening and analyse it.
This honestly makes you think. I bought this after it was pointed out stories in the Bible were aligned with myths from the same region. After reading this, I honestly don't care anymore. The whole thing...just read this please. Even if you are not inclined to believe that the Bible isn't a legitimate text describing God, I encourage you to take a peek. Because if you are truly supposed to be well equipped to reach out to others for Christ, there are a whole lot of points in here that won't easily be combated with "Well, faith".
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