Thank the FSM it ' s finally over

 In the competition for worst book of the Bible, I give it to Joshua. The book is an unbeatable combination of abysmal literary quality and revolting content. Here Yahweh boasts of his atrocities. No, he doesn ' t seem nice. Skeptics Annotated Bible lists about 13 contradictions in this chapter but I won ' t bother, suffice it to say that many of the details of the narrative don ' t match up with previous accounts.  Next time we move on to Judges, which is equally repulsive but a bit more interesting.24 Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges and officials of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.2 Joshua said to all the people, “This is what theLord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your ancestors, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods.3 But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him throughout Canaan and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac,4 and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I assigned the hill country of Seir to Esau, but Jacob and his family went down to Egypt.5 “‘Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I afflicted the Egyptians by what I did there, and I brought you out.6 When I brought your people out of Egypt, you came to the sea, and the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen[a] as far as the Red Sea.[b]7 But they cried to theLo...
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