The Atheist in the Trailer Park

I screwed up the numbering on the last episode, and  this  episode is really number 34, not the last one.  Anyway, in this episode, I read part of the Chapter XXIII Jesus, the Resurrection and Ascention into Heaven from Doane's Bible Myths.  Its a bit longer than usual, and I didn't even get the whole chapter completed, so you'll just have to be in suspenders until the next time I read from Bible...

I want to thank everyone for their expressions of sympathy after the passing of my uncle.  It really helped hearing from all of you during such a difficult time.  I'm a bit bitchier than usual in this news episode, so consider yourselves warned. Some of the stories I cover include things like gun nuts, terrorism, IFLS getting a case of the stoopids, along with Discovery News having a similar case...

Just a brief message to let you know that because I've had a death in the family there will be no episode this week.  Next week's episode might be delayed, depending upon if I'm able to go home for the funeral.

Two chapters from Doane this week.  Chapter 21 on the Darknes at the Crucifixtion, and Chapter 22 on Jebus' Descent into Hell.  With added bonus of hearing me froth at the mouth over a religion which condemns even its most ardent followers to damnation because reasons.

Show notes can be found here. In this episode, I discuss the book "The Auschwitz Volunteer" by Witold Pilecki, which cronicles his attempt to take control of the camp at Auschwitz during WWII. The news stories I cover include Israel arrest Jewish extremist group, Thailand under attack by jihadists (who also like the bars and prostitutes), massive ancient Egyptian burial site discovered, astronauts...

Its a long one.  Sorry about that.   You can find the show notes for this episode here.   I think from now on, I'm just going to do a hard out at 1 hour of recording time, because its really tiring for me to record and then edit such a long episode.  It took me a couple of hours just to edit this thing down, whereas if I cut it off at the hour mark, it only takes about 2 hours to edit the podcast....

Sorry for the delay in getting this posted, but Professor Fuzznuts insisted on "helping" with this episode by sitting on the keyboard every time I tried to work on it.  Some of the news stories I cover are a Kenyan school using sewage to provide gas for cooking, the New Horizons probe wakes up, American preacher charged with crimes against humanity and more.  I'll have complete shownotes and links...

Sorry for the delay in getting this posted, I had a busy weekend, so I wasn't able to record at my usual time, and this threw me off.  I would like to give a big thanks to Tom and Cecil over at the Cognitive Dissonance podcast for playing my voicemail.     This episode covers chapter 19 of TW Doane's Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions, which deals with the significance of the numbe...

In this episode we cover a bicycle powered centrifuge to help medical personnel in developing nations, a composting toilet built out of scrap lumber, a rammed earth school, talking books, followed by more discoveries at that mysterious Grecian tomb, a 3D printed car, the 3D printer on the ISS, Catholic bishops warn against getting vaccinated, and more.  I'll have the full show notes up tomorrow ev...

Here's the episode I promised, with not one, but TWO chapters from Doane's book.  Editing's a little rough on this one.  I'm a bit tired, but I wanted to get this up now, since I'd promised to post it on Sunday, and didn't get to it until now.  I'm dogged tired, so I'll get the show notes up tomorrow.

This episode features my interview with Dr. Robert M. Price of  the Bible Geek Podcast  and the  Human Bible Podcast.   The audio quality isn't the best as we had to do the interview over the phone, but its not so bad that its hard to listen to.  Its a bit longer than the usual episode, but well worth a listen.  I'd like to thank Dr. Price again, for taking time out his schedule to do the intervie...

At long last, another news episode!  Topics covered in this week's episode include: Fun with voting!  (Or not.) Tibetan monks build artificial glacier Ethiopia poised to lead green revolution Saudi Arabia STILL denies women the right to drive ISIS releases a cookbook Followers of John the Baptist flee genocide in Iraq 3D Printed laptop reaches funding goal Compact, portable 3D printer in developme...

Yup.  Still no internet.  AT&T is supposed to come out and hook up a connection on Tuesday, since Comcast can't be bothered to fix my problem.  We'll see how it goes.  Any way, this episode has me complaining about the local politics of the area.  At the end of the podcast I announce that I'm holding a contest for listeners.  Winner(s) get a dead tree edition of Doane's Bible Myths.  If my interne...

My apologies for the banging sound in the background, I was doing my laundry while recording the podcast.  You get THREE chapters of Bible Myths this week, because I still don't have internet access.  Right now, I'm sitting outside the library, trying to upload this.  Hopefully, this works, because the transmission rate is jumping all over the place. Anyway, the three chapters are 14, 15, and 16. ...

Sorry for the delay, but my internet is out because Comcast blows dead bears.

Apologies for the short episode this week, I'm on some new medication and one of the side-effects is fatigue, so I didn't have the time to prepare for a full episode, as I had to sleep all the damned time.  Hopefully, they'll have passed by the next news episode.   News stories include : 7 women burned ALIVE for being witches Dutch man builds full size ark, stuffs it fake animals More from that my...

Sorry for the delay in getting this posted, but editing it was a bitch.  Show notes will have to wait until tomorrow, but there's not a huge amount of links associated with this particular episode.

Okay a shorter episode tonight, I'll be back with a full length episode next week. More details on the Grecian tomb mentioned in episode 11 emerge. Trailer for documentary about Babylonian Flood myth which pre-dates Noah by a couple thousand years. Boko Haram still running amok in Africa Map of ebola outbreaks. Top Liberian health official potentially exposed to ebola. Many in Liberia worry that t...

A short episode since I'm running out of storage space this month.  Show notes and contact information can be found  here. Stories include: Kentucky senate candidate has anti-semitic campaign slogan, Hobby Lobby ruled used to justify silence in child labor case, Americans want more religion in their politics, not less, and Ken Ham to headline rascist gathering.   Thanks for listening!

The second news episode will have to wait until Wednesday, I'm afraid. Show notes and contact info can be found here.   This a bit of tough episode to chew through, I'll be the first to admit, and Doane really hammers away at the fact that there's  nothing unique about Jesus' supposed virgin birth.

A news episode at last!  I must admit that I got a bit ranty in the beginning of the episode.  You can find links to the news articles along with contact info for the show  in the show notes.   Sorry I don't have time to put them here, but I'm tired and need to get this episode posted tonight.  You'll get another episode tomorrow, it'll be a Bible Myths episode, and I may get out a second news epi...

Think of this episode like unfastening a bra strap:  Tough to do, but the reward is so, so worth it.  Its tough to process everything (and the fact that 19th Century English could be unnecessarily obtuse doesn't help matters), but it lays out the history of when the books of the Old Testament were written, and the influence that the Babylonians and others had on Old Testament books. On a related t...

I'll give you a hint, it  wasn't Moses!  Sorry for the delay, but I've had a bit of a hectic week, and couldn't get an episode finished until now.  I'm wore out, so the show notes will have to wait until tomorrow.

A bit of a bonus episode this week!  I read chapters 9 and 10 of Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions.  Chapter 9 talks about Jonah as a sun god, along with figures from Hindu mythology, as well as Little Red Riding Hood being a sun goddess.   Little Golden Hood  is a variant on the story of Little Red Riding Hood that you might not be familiar with. Chapter 10 deals with the practic...

Archeologists in Greece discover massive tomb which dates from 325-300 BC and may have connections to Alexander the Great. Italian tomb with paintings which look like they're by Neil Gaiman. Indian province running low on priests as people forgo religion to make money. Ken Ham's Ark Encounter engages in illegal hiring practices and has ties to a racist organization. Jordan's LGBT community worries...