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This site is in many ways a modern-day version of an old book I have, first published in 1888 when in Britain such things could get one into trouble with the law, called The Bible Handbook by the Freethinker pioneers GW Foote and WP Ball (my edition is from 1948). This book is a long series of quotations from both halves of the Bible under the headings 'Bible Contradictions', 'Bible Absurdities', 'Bible Atrocities', 'Unfulfilled Prophecies and Broken Promises' and 'Bible Immoralities, Indecencies and Obscenities'. Having never read the Bible in my youth (that's what comes from going to a Church of England school!), I was amazed when I read this book to discover just how violent and intolerant the basis for Christianity, Judaism and Islam actually is. I like winding up Bible bashers who are rabbiting on about sinfulness, asking them why I should be put to death for eating black pudding (a tasty sausage largely made of pig's blood). It's there in black and white: Leviticus iii/16-17; vii/26-27; xvii/10-16. Paul F ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
