Chariots of Iron

In the news this week: people are compartmentalizing reality again, another love-fest planned to show the Mormons how it’s done, the “Religious Right” needs to start putting its politicians in chastity belts, Orthodox Jews riot because they live in a country with child-welfare laws (and parking lots,) more evidence is found of evolution via natural selection (like we needed more,) Jimmy Carter does something pretty awesome, and this man:

has big plans for your genitals!

This week, we discuss messianic prophecy, which is to say, prophecy concerning the Jewish “messiah.” Lamar leads us through a discussion of what it means when something is prophecy and how the writers of the new testament might have fudged a bit when trying to tie some of these prophecies to Jesus. We also run into some “prophecy” that isn’t prophecy at all! If you are interested in just how full of shit Christian apologetics can get, this is the show for you. And even if you’re not, we still have mad mudkipz.

so i herd u liek mudkipz

That’s a little something for Lamar, there. Get you an education, son!

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It’s just the boys this week. Yeah, we were thinking that we weren’t getting enough face time with you guys. It’s been a long time since we all just hung out without anybody else around. It’ll be just like old times!

In the news this week: Oklahoma is set to declare that hot man-on-man action contributed to the economic decline of America, someone at the Vatican has their head on straight, Joe the Plumber claims that he talks to god, Turkey is launching the awesomest game-show of all time, we have a heartwarming religious story in which absolutely nothing is killed or maimed, the Pope more or less declares that he is badly in need of some critical thinking skills, and Camp Quest is starting a chapter in the UK this summer… hey, maybe they should invite the Pope.

The main segment this week is the Bible Science Game Show, with your host: Eli Trebek.

Eli fires off some bible or Quran passages that modern “theologians” claim predict a scientific fact and we must guess scientific fact that he is predicting before the vein on Lamar’s head explodes. One thing becomes abundantly clear: whoever edited these books needs to be fired. Badly. Posthumously, even. Join us as we strain our credulity in an attempt to sift nuggets of scientific truth from the bullshit of the ancients.

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