It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.
“The Bible: Fact or Fiction?” · Season 2, Episode 6
In this episode: Penn (5)
Now why wouldn't God just appear to Pharaoh, and say it himself? Because God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways.
Monty Python's Life of Brian was more historically accurate than Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.
Penn [repeatedly]: Elvis didn't do no drugs!
God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways.
this statement is a rebuke to the famous assertion by William Cowper: "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm."
Take some time and put the Bible on your summer reading list. Try and stick with it cover to cover. Not because it teaches history; we've shown you it doesn't. Read it because you'll see for yourself what the Bible is all about. It sure isn't great literature. If it were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and some quotable phrases, but there's no plot, no structure, there's a tremendous amount of filler, and the characters are painfully one-dimensional. Whatever you do, don't read the Bible for a moral code: it advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition, and murder. Read it because: we need more atheists — and nothin' will get you there faster than readin' the damn Bible.
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