Ye Olde English Atheist

Have mercy on the Shut-ins

The Lost Epistle

The Book of Dung

Lost in Translation

Bibles Away

Bible Experiment

Bible Stories

Original Blunder

Hurray for Holywood!

Like religion, Hollywood excels at producing imaginative fantasies.

Fun With Numbers #6

Did you know that Samson's shoulders were “60 ells broad” (Sotah 10a). One ell is about equal to a cubit, so let’s see 60 times 18 inches that’s about 90 feet wide. That’s pretty fucking broad!

Did you also know that he was so strong he could “uplift two mountains and rub them together like two clods of earth” (Soṭah 9b). That’s pretty fucking strong!

Fun With Numbers #5

Did you know that King Solomon had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines (1 Kings 11:3). That's a lot of fucking pussy!

Fun With Numbers #4

Did you know that Methuselah lived to be 969 years old. That's pretty fucking old!

Fun With Numbers #3

The tallest modern structure is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai which is 2,740 feet tall. Did you know that the Tower of Babel was "5,433 cubits and 2 spans" tall (Book of Jubilees). That works out to about 8,150 feet tall. That's pretty fucking tall!

Fun With Numbers #2

Did you know that Noah's Ark contained two of each animal and insect that God had created (along with Noah's family). Scientists estimate that there are approximately 5 million species on earth, so times 2 we have 10 million animals and insects on board. That's a pretty big fucking boat!

Fun With Numbers #1

Did you know that Goliath was "6 cubits and a span" tall (1 Samuel 17:4). Each cubit is about 18 inches, and a span is about 9 inches. That works out to 9 feet 9 inches tall. That's pretty fucking tall!