Deanna G. Selinger

Aron Ra is always a good listen

Reviewed: 2018-10-09

Aron Ra is always a good listen. He reads as though he is speaking to an engaged audience (which he usually is), and although he speaks in the vernacular much of the time, it doesn't detract from his wealth of knowledge which he continues to pursue and pass along. I especially appreciate that this book is all about the failure of creationism to be in any way rational. I wouldn't have thought that creationists' fallacies could be so easily picked out of the pot of irrational beliefs. In fact, the creation myth is one of the "easier" myths to dispel, or at least have a decent conversation about - because, for me at least, it's just another creation myth out of the current thousands of creation myths. I hope he gets another book out soon.

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excellent, realistic and impeccably researched...

Reviewed: 2018-07-31

... by Bart Herman, an expert in biblical, especially New Testament studies. I'm an atheist solely because of rationality and reason so it did me good to hear that his break from faith had everything to do with simply understanding the christian bible "[historically rather than devotionally]", and by not moralizing every concept, every word, or assigning universal meaning and truths to both, as most christians are wont to do. Ehrman cites many, if not all, of the discrepancies and contradictions in the bible which completely discredit the entire canonization.The bible needs to be appreciated for what it is - a great work of literature and a record of myths - fantastical myths, horrible myths and even worse characters, especially the "one and only God" character. Ehrman tells of how and why he began to understand the bible, and how it should be understood, in its entirety, as a product of its era.

The narrator is clear and does not overly dramatize. A fairly easy listen. I give it 5s all the way across.

The book "Zealot" by Reza Aslan, is another reader/listener friendly book about this subject - the lives and times in which the books of the bible were recorded are direct by-products of the socio-economic milieu in which they were written down from many generations of an oral story-telling tradition.

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