Hey folks! I’ve been working on a new podcast delivery system for Ask an Atheist! But this time, rather than trying to push untested code onto the Ask an Atheist servers, I’ve created a very short-term side podcast called “Exasperated!” I’ve had a couple posts up for a few weeks, but I thought I’d let […]

In this week’s look at the funny, the scary and just plain weird passages in humanity’s holy texts, we look at the Bible’s poor grasp of simple facts. Often, people excuse the Bible for saying things that its authors’ contemporaries could not have possibly known, given their limited Iron Age knowledge. This week, we look […]

In this week’s look at the funny, the scary and just plain weird passages in humanity’s holy texts, we look at the Bible’s take on child discipline. While it’s often held up as a beacon of wisdom and morality, the Bible’s take on parenting is neither wise nor moral. Deuteronomy 21:18-21, King James Version: 18If […]

It looks like somebody put Jesus in the corner! When the Seattle Post-Intelligencer interviewed me for our “Countdown to Backpedaling” back in May, I mentioned to the article’s author, Amy Rolph that the belief in the eminent Second Coming wasn’t limited to groups like Family Radio. I cited a Pew Research survey conducted back in […]

In this week’s look at the funny, the scary and just plain weird passages in humanity’s holy text, is a look at the Bible’s views on the institution of slavery. This week, we look at not just one, but three passage from the New Testament: Ephesians 6:5, New International Version: 5 Slaves, obey your earthly […]

I really wish I could quit you, Harold Camping. Really. You used to be funny and we’d giggle at your laughable prophecies every week on the show. Now, I just wish that you’d just curl up and die.  I’d have thought that we’d have heard the last of this senile, half-dead zealot when he announced […]

In this week’s look at the funny, the scary and just plain weird passages in humanity’s holy text, is a return to the Bible and its skewed sense of decency. This passage this week comes from Genesis 19: 1-8, New International Version. But first a little context. In this story, God is pissed at his […]

The results are in for the Best of Western Washington, and well….it’s not us. However, we’re incredibly proud of our strong Second Place showing in a contest that had us beating out a number of popular and well-established local podcasts and radio programs.  We’ve known for sometime that it was going to be a tortoise-and-the-hare […]

In this week’s look at the funny, the scary and just plain weird passages in humanity’s holy text, is a return to the Bible and its skewed sense of justice. This passage this week comes from  Deuteronomy 22: 28-29, New International Version: 28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged […]

Well, I just looked out of the window a moment ago and saw that the universe was still there. Harold Camping, the doddering old batshit Christian broadcaster with a potential AM radio audience of millions has failed for the third time to predict the apocalypse. I’m not really sure what I can write about this […]