Sunday Sermonette: Air Pollution Warning

The Skeptics Annotated Bible introduction to Leviticus begins, " I wouldn ' t read Leviticus if I were you. No one else does. " That ' s probably good advice, but we ' re committed to this project so off we go. One of the key reasons I ' m doing this is to prove that people who claim that the Bible is the literal, inerrant word of God a) must have a very low opinion of God and b) don ' t pay any attention to 99% of what he says.Leviticus begins with detailed, specific instructions for dismembering and burning animals. And that is a good percentage of the entire book, actually, along with several other categories of bizarre instructions. Orthodox Jews nowadays pay attention to an item here and there, as do fundamentalist Christians, but they ignore most of it.  To the extent that the Bible is foundational to any religious sect, Jewish or Christian, it is by selecting a few nuggets here and there and ignoring the rest. Here we go. God really loves the smell of burning flesh but I warn you, breathing the smoke is very bad for your health.1 TheLord summoned Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying:2 Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: When any of you bring an offering of livestock to theLord, you shall bring your offering from the herd or from the flock.3 If the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you shall offer a male without blemish; you shall bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting, for acceptance in your behalf be...
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