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Satan's Guide to The Bible (2023)
Digestible Scholarship
I was born Catholic, but could only afford Lutheran School. So yeah CCD & Sunday School. I grew up in NYC suburbs (NJ) with Jews,Muslim, Hindu & my Karate Instructor was Buddhist. While Christianity terrified me. I was always fascinated by religion. I've spent my life reading about the milieu that gave birth to Christianity. I'm not a scholar. I've taken all my electives in this topic and my Greek is improving 😬. I've watched twice and never thought this isn't the scholarly consensus. Engaging and creative as well. The students are funny and all have their own personalities. They use humor to show each student (people) all have different levels of curiosity.
Is Genesis History? (2017)
Intellectually insulting
I thought this was a variety of perspectives from real scientists on the history of our amazing planet. It devolves pretty fast. It starts out as a science doc, but 8 min in he begins to speaking about Noah's flood myth( which is sadly unoriginal, other God's in older traditions had floods as well.) as a historical truth. Then an "expert" starts dismissing pretty basic science in leu of pseudoscience that obviously doesn't follow. The Bible is a fascinating document/collection of stories that helps us understand western culture. So is Homer. I watched a really great documentary on the Odyssey. They try to find truth behind mythology, such as ancient see monsters being giant squid, natural sounds from ocean formations and the etymology of "holy moly". I thought this doc would be in that grounded in truth or at lest possibility spirit. No it's bannana man young earth creationists propaganda.