Religion and Delusion: Branch Davidians and the Siege of Waco

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70. I would concur.

And you are correct, there is a lot of older thinking on religion which should be considered, like all those radical 19th century German Biblical textual critics who helped bring to light concepts like Markan priority and other Biblical history. It apparently has had Christian apologists twisting in the wind. The apologists publish whole books trying to align Biblical discrepancies, which amazingly and simultaneously they deny exist.

I often wish I could stomach the language of the English Bible. I find the narratives interesting, but the language is horrible. If one is to be well armed against the fundie Christian believers, it helps to know the Bible. But getting through it is an utter pain. I've tried and failed multiple times. Cannot get through Numbers, let alone through the rest of the Septuagint. I love reading, but the Bible is worse than James Joyce or Thomas Pynchon. One ends up throwing the book across the room before one gets very far into it, screaming, "Am I supposed to be able to make any sense of this crap?"

Maybe that's why I am an atheist.