Thursday 3 March 2016

Fairy Tales


A Russian man has been charged with upsetting Russian Orthodox Christians  by saying that their God does not exist and that it's all a collection of Jewish fairy tales.

If convicted, punishment could be up to one year in jail. Source: BBC News.

I'd recommend the defendant produce a copy of The Bible Unearthed by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silbermann at the hearing. Many passages will corroborate his viewpoint.

Subtitled Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of its Sacred Texts the book lends much weight to the fairy tale hypothesis and supports the idea of free speech and open discourse.


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8 comments:

  1. Shawn3 March 2016 at 19:15

    Oh those Russians!

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    1. Gwil W4 March 2016 at 08:58

      God is sitting up there on his throne like an Abraham Lincoln statue. Everybody knows that.

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  2. The Weaver of Grass3 March 2016 at 19:17

    Gwil, you really do read some obscure books!

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    1. Gwil W4 March 2016 at 08:59

      The obscurer the better. I generally find they have more to say. Maybe that's why they are obscure.

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  3. Rachel Phillips3 March 2016 at 22:21

    The Iranians have recently increased the fatwa bounty on Salman Rushdie. You have to be careful where religion is concerned.

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    1. Gwil W4 March 2016 at 09:09

      Bounty on Rushdie. World's second highest execution rate. Underground prisons. It must be a lovely place.

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  4. Magyar4 March 2016 at 19:21

    __Even some of we (US), the decadent citizens of the United States as it is so often implied, believe in decency, and dry our tears ensued by lives violently and criminally lost in some other ideology.
    __All lives matter, it is said. My lowlife loss of intellect asks who, when, where and why, were the tenets of decency we strive to follow, realized and set. Were they found in that heart felt fiction, in the facts of life... or in both_?

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  5. Gwil W4 March 2016 at 20:44

    Thank you Magyar. If we knew the answer to your question then we'd really know something worth knowing. The journey continues. We only arrived here 2 minutes ago. We have along way still to go. There are signposts; Galileo, Shakespeare, Beethoven and others of their ilk try to show us the way . . .

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