An Atheist Reads the Bible - 8 - The Empty Tomb

An atheist opens the New Testament and finds contradictions galore.


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WRITTEN, EDITED & POORLY ANIMATED by 43alley


AUDIO: The classic Scourbey audio recording of the Bible (a minimal excerpt from a 70+ hour recording) - all utilized for educational, critical, parody and non-commercial use under the Fair Use Doctrine, Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, 510 U.S. 569 (1994), etc. This narration is available for download on various websites as well all across YouTube.

MUSIC: Taken from various royalty-free websites across the web. The clips used here are with permission from http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/ (Shaun Harris, Shaun Harris Music, BMI © 2009)

TEXT: The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John. The passages here are all from the last chapter of each Gospel (with the exception of John, which is the next-to-last. Many believe the last chapter of John to be a subsequent forgery).

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[huraziel]

i love the holymen zombies, one was from sodom, one was the guy collecting sticks on the sabath, one was a judge. love it nice work

[43alley]

@huraziel - I love it when people catch things like that!

[Gaaminator]

well actually if they were 100% exactly the same that would be very suspicious. however if the accounts slightly vary as they should coming from different people then that is actually more believable. If it was a lie or made up the author would want to be as consistent as he could. but this is not the case. Obviously the writers are speaking of their personal accounts.

none of these are very contradictory at all...

[43alley]

@Gaaminator - Personal accounts? Are you claiming that the aurhorsof these gospels were eye-witnesses?

[Gaaminator]

@43alley Of course, or otherwise copies of the original eye witness. That is the entire point.

either these people are lying, somehow insane, or telling the truth. make your decision.

[43alley]

@Gaaminator - you realize the "liar, lunatic or lord" trilema is incomplete and dishonest, don't you? I did a video on it callled "I Am Legend.". It's part 13 in this series. Watch and see why you shouldn't use that argument. 

[SamonMarquis]

The Umbrella Corporation is responsible for Matthew 27:51.

That's what I found out reading the Book of Austin.

[43alley]

@FreeThinkingBeing - you guys are the ones obsessed, you guys won't shut up about the "while it was dark/early in the morning" part. What about the all the other crap? Earthquakes, flying angels, two men in shiny garments vs. one man vs. two angels, etc. It's like you religious people watch to the first part, then turn it off.

If I showed you four stories of Mohammed being chosen by Allah as his prophet that contradicted this much, you would roll your eyes. Like I do to these stories.

[RuGr8tful2]

religious people are fools

[darkchibicosmos]

It's not slightly. They completely contradict. And the person allowed error for small things like the setting/time (when he talks about the sun's position) and even the number of people. But it continues to contradict from there. And then people claim the bible is completely accurate, no contradictions. How does this work? We would need something similar. Such as "There were three women" "Mary and two of her companions" "Mary and some women" SOMETHING like that so it could work.

[huraziel]

@43alley these videos are great, my favorite is the i am legend one. thank you for your work. would you recommend anybody else? because i still believe a lil XD.

[EruditeScythian]

No historical record of zombies walking around in Jerusalem in the 1st century afaik and this is one of the most written-about pieces of real estate in all history. Strange.

[RationalArtist]

@Gaaminator LOL!!!!!!!!! I am definitely worried you should see a professional ... nowhere in the Gospels does it talk about 'Then we went to Galilee' or 'Jesus left for *insert city here* , but Peter and I went off to spread the Gospel elsewhere' or 'while I was in *insert city here* , Jesus was performing miracles' or 'Then Jesus spoke to me such and such' ... You're either an idiot or a liar and that is not a false dichotomy.

[Gaaminator]

@RationalArtist Anyone who knows anything about literature knows when someone is talking in first person. Obviously they claim to be eyewitnesses, the only way you could say otherwise is if you were blind or had no understanding of the English language. I have done plenty of studying the entire bible was put together only at around 200-300s AD which believe it or not isnt that late, and the original gospels could have been written much earlier it is only the earliest found copies that are newer.

[RationalArtist]

@Gaaminator How are you even able to get out of bed with the absurdity of what you just posted? Go do some research about the 'synoptic problem' ... and actually READ the damned Gospels. The ANONYMOUS authors (as the names Mathew Mark Luke John were given at a MUCH LATER date) do not claim to have been eyewitnesses.

[FreeThinkingBeing]

@Elitest2 Yes I agree with you. There is more than one valid definition of "atheism". And yes it is totally possible to ask for proof without a vested interest either way. The only problem occurs when one has a fixed idea that it can only be one way & then shuts themselves off from observation & also begins to attack others. I personally see contradictory elements in the bible but I think some of the complaints in this vid just reveal a slanted agenda, which discredits it as an infantile attack.