The Atheist in the Trailer Park

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...

This episode is a bit of a long one, I'm afraid.  It clocks in at an hour and twenty minutes and tells the story of Samson, the strong man, and how he's most likely a sun god from an earlier religious tradition that has been adapted by the writer of the book of Judges to a heroic figure.   This episode also has some listener email, from a listener in Taiwan who's started a couple of atheist groups...

Slight problem with recording so the audio might not be as good as it could be.  Hope to get the problems fixed before the next episode.   This is a news episode, stories covered include TN decides to drug test welfare recipients, discovers only one of them uses drugs, TN governor decides prayer's the solution to the failing educational system in the state, and TN judge says gay marriage ban doesn...

This episode covers chapter 7 of TW Doane's  Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions , which deals with the 10 Commandments.  Its only about 30 minutes worth of material, so the rest of the episode consists of news stories.  Think of it as a bonus news episode, rather than being deprived of more of Doane's work.  Show notes can be found at  tparkatheist.blogspot.com

News stories include:  How much do Christians donate to churches?  Nutjob preacher predicts Christians will soon be rounded up and killed.  Pakistani mob murders babies because of "blasphemous" Facebook posting.  British MP wants doctors to try astrology.  TX police department gets busting for trying to put "God back in schools."  Alabama politician says, "If God didn't want us to burn coal, why'd...

Hi, I'm drunk.  I think that everything I've mentioned should show up, somehow, in the various versions of this that I've done.  If not, then Google it, and you'll get the answer in a couple of seconds.  Please remember that Professor Fuzznuts Jr., loves you and blesses you!  I'll have a new episode up some time this weekend.

Sorry I don't have time to put the links in here, but I'm two days behind putting this out, and if I took the time to put the links in, it'd probably be another two days before I got this posted.  Its been a busy week, you can hear how tired I was when I recorded this.

In order to keep the lengths down to an hour long or so, I'm going to alternate between doing a news episode and reading from Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Regions.  In this episode, we cover chapters 3 -5 which deal with child sacrifice (What exactly was Abraham up to when he took Isaac out?), the Tower of Babel, and how Jacob's dream about angels climbing a ladder is about reincarnati...

Find us on Facebook!   In the news:   Gitmo detainees to use Hobby Lobby decision to protest lack of communal prayer during Ramadan.    3D printing aids where prayer doesn't.   3D printing aids diabetics with foot problems.    Finish reading chapter 1 and 2 of Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions by TW Doane .   Ancient Mexican skull provides clues to origins of Native Americans.   ...

As you can hear from my voice, I'm a bit under the weather, so I skipped the news and other topics I'd planned to cover and just read partway through the first chapter of Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions.

Seriously, its crap.  Like all first episodes of podcasts, its crap.  Don't listen to it. Here read this story about atheists in Saudi Arabia instead.   If you don't like that, then  read this story about a 16 year old girl in India who invented a washing machine.   Don't like that?  How about this story about a  physicist who thought Pluto was an interstellar transportation system.   Don't like t...