Category Archives: Bible

Michel Onfray, ATHEIST MANIFESTO, summary

Posted on Saturday 30 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

One more time.

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Carel Van Schaik & Kai Michel, THE GOOD BOOK OF HUMAN NATURE: An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible (2016): Introduction

Posted on Thursday 19 December 2019 by Mark R. Kelly

This is a fascinating book because it describes how there really is some rationale (if not reason or logic) to the stories in the Bible. It’s a set of answers to the general question, a sort of meta-question that one … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: Trump and His Supporters; Versions of Leviticus; Ancient Aliens, Skepticism, and What Science Fiction Is Not

Posted on Friday 3 August 2018 by Mark R. Kelly

I’ve been preoccupied with other matters in recent months, and need to resume regular posting of Links and Comments from things I see in the papers and magazines that I think are pertinent, in one way or another. If I … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: Roy Moore and Religious Hypocrisy

Posted on Friday 17 November 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

The Roy Moore scandal fascinates me for several reasons. First, because Roy Moore has been a villain, a sort of comic-book villain, for years and years, among progressives who observe his brand of religious zealotry as a sign of the … Continue reading →

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Kurt Eichenwald on the Bible

Posted on Monday 27 March 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

This 2014 long article from Newsweek was being linked by some of my Fb friends; I don’t recall having seen it before. The Bible: So Misunderstood It’s a Sin It covers first the familiar points that believers, even evangelicals, are … Continue reading →

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Reading the Bible: Genesis, 1

Posted on Friday 10 February 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

This past month I’ve resumed my close reading of the Bible. I began last year, reading overviews of the Old Testament before reading the New Testament itself closely, taking notes on personal reactions, and reading commentaries and noting salient points … Continue reading →

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Christianity and the Sunk Cost fallacy

Posted on Wednesday 4 January 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

In the Christmas Day issue of the New York Times, columnist Nicholas Kristof has a chat with the evangelist Christian pastor and author Timothy Keller, asking Am I a Christian, Pastor Timothy Keller?. Kristof admires the teachings of Jesus but … Continue reading →

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Thomas Paine, THE AGE OF REASON (1796)

Posted on Friday 24 June 2016 by Mark R. Kelly

Thomas Paine was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, author of Common Sense in 1776, which inspired the American revolution, and Rights of Man in 1791, which defended the French Revolution. He’s one of those Founding Fathers … Continue reading →

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Reading In and Around the Bible: Three More NT Epistles; Revelation

Posted on Tuesday 21 June 2016 by Mark R. Kelly

Final post of notes about my first reading of the New Testament. List of previous posts: Intro and sources used (Oxford’s edition of the New Revised Standard Version, the King James Version via Steve Wells’ Skeptic’s Annotated Bible, Stephen M. … Continue reading →

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Reading In and Around the Bible: Hebrews, James

Posted on Monday 20 June 2016 by Mark R. Kelly

Next set of Biblical commentary. See Part 1 about sources used — NRSV, Asimov, Miller, KJV via Wells. List of previous posts: Intro and sources used (Oxford’s edition of the New Revised Standard Version, the King James Version via Wells’ … Continue reading →

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