Is the Bible as bad as atheist memes claim? Dan Kimball vs Michael Wiseman

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🗓️ 29 January 2021

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The online atheist world is awash with memes that critique passages from the Bible. Dan Kimball is the author of the new book ‘How (not) to read the Bible: Making sense of the anti-women, anti-science, pro-violence, pro-slavery, and other crazy sounding parts of scripture’. He debates atheist memes on slavery, violence and warfare with Michael Wiseman, host of the atheist podcast ‘The Bible Says What’. Dan Kimball: http://www.dankimball.com Michael Wiseman: https://twitter.com/bswthepodcast USA listeners check out our new USA website for exclusive resources and to support us: http://www.unbelievable.show Everywhere else, subscribe to our newsletter https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter and support the show https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UnbelievableJB Twitter https://twitter.com/unbelievablejb Insta https://www.instagram.com/justin.brierley

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0:00.0	Well hello, and welcome along to the show. I'm Justin Briley. This is unbelievable. The program from
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0:09.6	And asking today is the Bible as bad as the atheist memes claim. I've been introducing my guess
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1:18.7	well to recent editions of the show. So many emails and correspondence on the edition looking at
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1:34.8	recently. For now, let's get into today's edition of the program.
1:46.4	You're listening to unbelievable with Justin Breilie.
1:49.7	Today we're asking, is the Bible as bad as the atheist memes claim? We've all seen them,
1:58.6	haven't we? Online atheist memes that take a passage from often from the Old Testament and attempt
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