{"id":1418,"date":"2013-03-29T13:55:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T03:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2013-03-29T13:55:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T03:55:25","slug":"atheism-by-email-last-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=1418","title":{"rendered":"Atheism by Email, Last Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question from Janet:<\/strong><br \/>\nAbout 14 years ago, an email circulated about a number of contradictory and outrageous scriptures in the Bible.  One I remember in particular was about Lot offering his virginal daughters to a bunch of men in Sodom.  I forget the rest of the examples.  Do you remember that email?  It was written in narrative form, not as a list of weird things.  Does anyone have a copy?<br \/>\nMany thanks.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Answer by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smartlx\">SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nSorry.  In 1999 I had no interest in either religion or atheism and few friends who were online, so I&#8217;m not surprised that this email didn&#8217;t reach me.  I can&#8217;t track it down now either.  Anyone else?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t worry, because it&#8217;s extremely unlikely that the email contained any truly unique criticisms of the Bible.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/skepticsannotatedbible.com\/\">Skeptic&#8217;s Annotated Bible<\/a> is an excellent compendium of contradictions, cruelty, intolerance and more from throughout the 66 books of the modern Bible.  If anyone does find the old email, I&#8217;d be willing to bet that everything in it is covered in the SAB.  It even includes links to Christian responses to each criticism, so it&#8217;s a one-stop shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question from Janet: About 14 years ago, an email circulated about a number of contradictory and outrageous scriptures in the Bible. One I remember in particular was about Lot offering his virginal daughters to a bunch of men in Sodom. I forget the rest of the examples. Do you remember that email? It was written &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=1418\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Atheism by Email, Last Century&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[482,39,183],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","tag-atheist-chain-email","tag-bible","tag-skeptics-annotated-bible"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-mS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}