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Book of Ezekiel

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{{cquote|Thus says the Lord God: “Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their sleeves.... <i>Behold, I am against your magic charms.</i>|||{{bible|Ezekiel|13|18}}-20}}

The '''Book of Ezekiel''' is a [[Schizophrenia | schizophrenic]] fever dream masquerading as a book of [[prophecy]]. It features [[UFO]]s<ref>{{bible|Ezekiel|1|16}}</ref>, {{wpl|Ezekiel bread|a really dubious bread recipe|,}} a famous old gospel-song-slash-anatomy-lesson, a rather bizarre passage about [[God]] hating pillows, kerchiefs, and a wall;<ref>{{bible|Ezekiel|13|14|21}}</ref> and Chapter 23,<ref>{{bible|Ezekiel|23|1}}</ref> the [[Bible]]'s very own [[Rule 34]], to which every [[Christianity|Christian]] boy has [[masturbation|spanked it]] at least once. God orders Ezekiel to bake bread using his own poop in front of other people, and lie on one side for 390 days, then on the other for 40.<ref>{{bible|Ezekiel|4}}</ref> At one point Ezekiel eats a scroll, and finds it tasty.<ref>{{bible|Ezekiel|3|3}}</ref> His recipe for bibliophagy however would be lost, as later on in the Bible [[Gospel of John|John]] eats a book, which though tasty, gives him a stomach ache.<ref>{{bible|Revelation|10|10}}</ref>

When King Nebuchadnezzar was laying siege to the city of Tyre and its destruction seemed a sure thing, Ezekiel boldly prophesied that the king would destroy the city completely, with [[YHWH|Yahweh]] himself assuring that Tyre would ''not be rebuilt''.<ref>{{bible|Ezekiel|26|7|14}}</ref> Already Ezekiel himself also has to quote Yahweh to the effect that Nebuchadnezzar's armies actually ''failed'' to conquer Tyre <ref>{{bible|Ezekiel|29|18}}</ref>, but as a consolation the deity would let him plunder [[Egypt]] instead.<ref>{{bible|Ezekiel|29|19}}</ref> History however shows that Nebuchadnezzar failed to invade Egypt as well. Centuries later, Alexander the Great finally did destroy Tyre, and believers have been known to claim this as some kind of belated fulfillment of Ezekiel's original prophecy, conveniently overlooking the fact that he also said Nebuchadnezzar would do the job. Also, Tyre ''was'' rebuilt, being mentioned repeatedly already in the [[New Testament]] and ''still existing today''. As a prophet, Ezekiel was one big failure.

Like [[Book of Revelation|Revelation]], Ezekiel is an example of why, these days, we have social workers.

==See also==
*[[RationalWiki:Annotated Bible/Ezekiel]]
*[[Ezekiel's wheel]]
*[[Biblical prophecies]]
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Book of Joshua

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The book of '''Joshua''' is 
a massive bloodbath (it actually is)
 all about Joshua. Joshua was Moses's successor, after [[God|the big guy in the sky]] told [[Moses]] that he couldn't enter the [[Holy Land]] because he had a hissy fit (so much for the "merciful God"). One of the first cool things to happen is that when the [[Jews]] approach the river Jordan with the [[Ark of the Covenant]], the river just stops flowing for a while, and dries up. Then the Jews cross the river.

The next thing they do is circumcise all the male Jews who were born in the desert during the Exodus from Egypt. This probably would have been really, ''really'' painful.

God then tells the Jews to commence with the killing of everybody who lived in the holy land, not because they were inherently bad or evil, but because they were "in the way" of the Jews. This poses a sort of ethical question, as it is ostensibly a direct order by God to commit [[genocide]].

==The Captain of the LORD of hosts==
Moses was dead, but the real grunt-work of carving out a Holy Land for the chosen people was just beginning. Joshua was appointed to replace Moses as the leader of the Israelites. On the plains of Jericho before battle was given, the following scene took place:

{{quotebox|And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? And the captain of the LORD's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.}}

No one knows who this Captain of the host of the Lord really was. He was at least as [[holy]] as the burning bush, because the voice in the burning bush told Moses to take off his shoes too. He was holier than a mere [[angel]], since Joshua worshipped him and did not receive the same rebuke St. John received from an angel he tried to worship in {{bible|Revelation|19|10}}. At the same time he was not the LORD of Hosts Himself, for what sovereign calls himself his own subordinate officer?

==Evidence?==
Of all the cities on the campaign list, only four were inhabited during the usual claimed time period for the events. As we cannot dig in [[Jerusalem]], let's talk about the other three:
* '''Jericho''' — while it was a walled city in the stone age, in the bronze age, it was just a small town. There is no evidence on anything happening there.
* '''Lachish''' — This city was destroyed during the late bronze age.
* '''Hazor''' — Also destroyed during the same time frame.

So, at best, 3 cities, and one was rebuilt in the Egyptian style. Not a good showing.

==See also==
*[[RationalWiki:Annotated Bible/Joshua]]
*[[War crimes]]

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Book of Lamentations

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The '''Book of Lamentations''' is a set of five poems supposedly written by [[Jeremiah]], a [[Jewish]] "[[prophet]]".  It is considered to be a fairly firsthand account of the conquest of [[Jerusalem]] by Nebuchadnezzar and the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE.

==Structure==
The structure is fairly predictable.

*[[Jew]]s do bad things to upset [[God]].
*God decides to give the Jews yet another incredibly harsh object lesson to see if they'll finally "get it".
*Jews ''lament'' what has happened and promise to never upset God again.
*The following Tuesday, the cycle begins anew.

==See also==
*[[RationalWiki:Annotated_Bible/Lamentations]]

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Book of Psalms

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'''Psalms''' is an [[Old Testament]] book of the [[Bible]] that contains 150 poems (or songs) called ''psalms'', one of which (Psalm 119) is exceptionally long.  Each psalm is intended to be sung (or performed) individually as part of [[prayer]] or worship.  Psalms can be categorized by topic including: hymns of praise, hymns of thanksgiving, lamentations,  hymns of belief and wisdom, hymns of history, rage,<ref>[http://www.theopedia.com/Imprecatory_Psalms Imprecatory Psalms] on Theopedia</ref> and liturgical psalms.

Individual psalms are recited throughout the [[Judaism|Jewish]] year, often marking particular events and ceremonies in the local community or synagogue.  In any given [[Christian]] church, individual psalms are often incorporated into weekly services as well as used at special occasions and events.  Christian hymnals<ref>{{wpa | Hymnal}} </ref> are replete with psalms that have been set to [[music]] - including famous pieces by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Handel.

American [[slavery|slaves]] reportedly found comfort in psalms, setting many to music in their spirituals,<ref>{{wpa | Spiritual (music)}} </ref> notably {{bible|Psalm|137}}: "On the River of [[Babylon]] we sat down and wept".<ref>
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It's not recorded whether they sang {{bible|Psalm|137|9}} - "Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks" - with particular gusto.

==See also==
*[[RationalWiki:Annotated Bible/Psalm]]

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Books of Chronicles

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{{hatnote|For the magazine for erudite [[racists]], see [[Chronicles (magazine)]]}}

'''Chronicles''' are two books of the [[Bible]] in which, after a huge shout-out to the author's dead homies, some stuff happens to some people (presumably [[Jewish]] people, because this is the [[Old Testament]]), but also whomever the Jews were hating on at the time. They get into a war with them, then some of them die, and then some of them beget some others. And in the end all hell has broken loose because someone else won. The Greek translators of the [[Septuagint]], who couldn't take the full tedium of the single-volume Jewish version, divided it into '''1 Chronicles''' and '''2 Chronicles'''.<ref name=wp>{{wpa|Books of Chronicles}}</ref>

Rather disproving any divine authorship, the Old Testament is [[Argumentum ad nauseam| hellishly repetitive]], and Chronicles begins by rehashing the entire Bible-story-so-far all the way back to [[Adam]]. Hence it is widely suspected that it was written (anywhere from the 5<sup>th</sup> to 2<sup>nd</sup> century BCE<ref>[http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195393361/obo-9780195393361-0021.xml 1 and 2 Chronicles], Oxford Bibliographies</ref>) by someone who sat down with the earlier parts of the Bible and rewrote them all; some experts think the author might have had other sources, others say no, he really did just copy it all out.<ref name=wp/>{{efn|Perhaps he got paid by the word.}} He did however make some changes as he was rewriting it: 2 Chronicles is basically the [[Books of Kings]] with all references to the northern kingdom of Israel removed, amongst other modifications.<ref>{{wpa| Books of Kings}}</ref> Chronicles ends its chronicle with the events of around 540 BCE when [[Cyrus the Great]] ended the Israelites' exile in [[Babylon]]; this is also the endpoint of the Jewish [[Tanakh]].<ref name=wp/> And after that all was roses for the Jews.

[[God]] gets a cameo kicking [[King David]]'s ass for ordering a [[census]], because accurate enumeration of citizens is an [[abomination]] unto the LORD. Seriously, he nearly destroys [[Jerusalem]]. Apparently God forgot that back in 2 Samuel he was the one who told David to do it:{{efn|Alzheimer of the gods}}

{{cquote|And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah|||{{bible|2 Samuel|24|1}}}}

So Chronicles represents God's attempt to cover up this rash error.  Now the story is:

{{cquote|And [[Satan]] stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.|||{{bible|1 Chronicles|21|1}}}}

Yeah, that's the ticket.

==See also==
*[[RationalWiki:Annotated Bible/1 Chronicles]]
*[[RationalWiki:Annotated Bible/2 Chronicles]]

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Books of the Maccabees

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The '''Books of Maccabees''' are [[holy book|ancient books]], some of which are accepted by some [[Christians]] as [[Biblical]]. They are named because they all relate somehow to the Maccabean revolt against Seleucid rule; 1 & 2 Maccabees in particular give an account of that revolt. The remaining books are not specifically about the Maccabean revolt, but are so named because they were seen to relate to it somehow.
*[[1 Maccabees]]: believed to have been originally written in [[Hebrew]], although only a Greek translation survives. Accepted by the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] as part of the Old Testament, but not by [[Jews]] or [[Protestants]]
*[[2 Maccabees]]: believed to have been originally written in Greek, which survives. Accepted by the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and the Eastern Orthodox Church as part of the Old Testament, but not by [[Jews]] or [[Protestants]].
*[[3 Maccabees]]: accepted by the Eastern Orthodox Church, but not by Catholics, Protestants or Jews
*[[4 Maccabees]]: accepted by the {{wpl|Georgian Orthodox Church||,}} but not by other Eastern Orthodox Churches, Catholics, Protestants or Jews.
*There are further books sometimes called 5, 6, 7 and 8 Maccabees — and confusingly, ''5 Maccabees'' is used to refer to two completely different works. However, no church has ever accepted these; rather, this naming has been imposed by scholars, since they have similar content to 1—4 Maccabees (and possibly have some common textual history with them)
*1—3 Meqabyan: three books accepted as biblical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Eritrean Orthodox Church, but not by any other Christian group. Their name is derived from the word ''Maccabees'', but they recount different events.

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Boolean algebra

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{{cquote|Alice was walking beside the White Knight in Looking Glass Land.

"You are sad." the Knight said in an anxious tone: "let me sing you a song to comfort you."

"Is it very long?" Alice asked, for she had heard a good deal of poetry that day.

"It's long." said the Knight, "but it's very, very beautiful. Everybody that hears me sing it -
either it brings tears to their eyes, or else -"

"Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause.

"Or else it doesn't, you know."|||[[Lewis Carroll]], ''Through the Looking Glass''}}

'''Boolean algebra''' is the [[math]]ematics of '''boolean [[logic]]''', where statements (usually mathematical but sometimes literative arguments) are evaluated to be either [[truth|true]] or [[fallacy|false]].  

Boolean algebra is important in both [[inductive reasoning]] and [[deductive reasoning]], as well as [[science]] in general.  It is extremely important in [[computer]] sciences, such as programming, database querying and computer engineering, as electrial signals at the most basic level are translated to and from [[binary]] (true/false, 1/0, on/off, closed/open, etc).  When, however, one tries to apply boolean algebra to various [[nature|natural sciences]] such as [[biology]], or to social sciences such as [[psychology]], [[politics]], or [[sociology]], problems can arise, such as the [[false dilemma]].

==See also==
*[[Bit]]

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Brachylophosaurus

[[Image:Brachylophosaurus-v4.jpg|thumb| Leo before going the way of the pharoah]]   
   
'''Brachylophosaurus''' , or b-chizzle as known by the scientific community, was a large hadrosaur (family Hadrosauridae) that lived during the [[Cretaceous]] period. It fed primarily on horsetails, and weirdly enough rotting wood.<ref>[http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2110/palo.2006.p06-087r?journalCode=palo The Paleobiological Implications Of Herbivorous Dinosaur Coprolites From The Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation Of Montana: Why Eat Wood?] by Karne Chin. ''Palaios''22(5):554-566. 2007. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/palo.2006.p06-087r.</ref>
   
==Leonardo==
[[File:Leonardo_mummified_brachylophosaurus.jpg|thumb|Left| Return the slab…]]
Brachies have yielded a fairly large amount of well, preserved fossils, but none like Leonardo (or as lame-o prudes call him, specimen JRF 115H), a [[dinosaur]] mummy of sorts. Thanks to the magical process of [[fossil]]ization, many of its skin, muscle, organ, organ contents and even parasites in its stomach have been used as a cast and replaced with rock, showing what could never bee seen before with mortal eyes. Such a monumental discovery shows the lifestyle of not just Leo, but how hadrosaurs lived and the ecosystem of past earth.

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*[[Fossil]]

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Brad DeLong

[[File:Brad DeLong 201010.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Brad DeLong in 2010]]
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'''James Bradford DeLong''', aka '''J. Bradford DeLong''' or '''Brad DeLong''', is a [[Keynesianism|New Keynesian]] and [[neoliberal]] (as in pro-[[free trade]]) [[economist]] who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for the [[US]] Treasury Department under [[Bill Clinton]] and today regularly blogs about (duh) economics. When the [[Great Recession|Big One]] hit he was a prominent supporter of fiscal stimulus.<ref>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/01/understanding-the-chicago-anti-stimulus-arguments-a-response-to-kantoos.html</ref> 

He is a staunch critic of the [[Wall Street Journal]] op-eds, [[Fox News]], and [[Austrian School]] economics and has likewise spent time rebutting orthodox [[Marxist]] economics,<ref>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/09/paul-krugman-asks-a-question-on-the-austrian-hatred-of-fractional-reserve-banking-paper-money-etc-weblogging.html</ref> particularly the [[labor theory of value]].<ref>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/04/lire_le_capital.html</ref> However he has acknowledged that [[Karl Marx|Marx]] the [[academic]], while making plenty of errors{{fact}}, also made some genuine contributions to economics, although he does not hold as high an opinion of Marx the ideologue.<ref>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/05/understanding-karl-marx-hoisted-from-the-archives-from-four-years-ago-may-day-weblogging.html</ref>

While a supporter of [[NAFTA]] and other trade agreements that lead to deeper integration he has said that while NAFTA had net positive effects the results were also somewhat disappointing in terms of not creating as much growth as predicted. While he would support it again he also suggests there may need to be a new way of looking to creating more growth from trade deals.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX8An-jSfFU</ref> 

DeLong is the originator of the term [[East African Plains Ape]].<ref>See [http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2005-3_archives/000570.html Large-Scale Social Cooperation in the East African Plains Ape] and [http://www.bradford-delong.com/2005/08/meme_watch_east.html Meme Watch: "East African Plains Ape"]</ref>

==See also==
*[[Paul Krugman]]: His more prominent buddy who adheres to similar policy suggestions and analysis.

==External links==
*[http://delong.typepad.com/ His blog] ([http://www.bradford-delong.com/ a mirror]).

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Bradley Monton

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'''Bradley Monton''' is an Associate Professor at the University of [[Colorado]], Boulder, notable mostly for allegedly being both an [[atheist]] and an [[Intelligent Design]] defender. He published a book, [[Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design]], in 2009. He has also written a paper on the [[Dover trial]]<ref>[http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/2592/ "Is Intelligent Design Science? Dissecting the Dover Decision"]</ref>
and given an interview to [[Casey Luskin]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofjn4b6N6k8 Atheists for Intelligent Design - part 1] (video), {{yt|IDquest}}, [[YouTube]], 26 July 2009</ref>

He's not a random crank - he got his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton in 1999.<ref name='cv'>[http://spot.colorado.edu/%7Emonton/BradleyMonton/Articles_files/monton%20cv.pdf Bradley Monton's CV] (PDF)</ref>

Monton resigned from CU Boulder in 2014 after allegations of inappropriate relationships with students, part of a larger scandal involving sexual harassment in the philosophy department at CU Boulder. He was paid out $185,000, which a Boulder official described as a business decision.<ref>[http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_26985850/cu-boulder-pay-philosophy-professor-brad-monton-185k CU-Boulder to pay philosophy professor Brad Monton $185K to resign] by Sarah Kuta ''Dailycamera''</ref>

==Quotes==
{{quotebox|I will now argue that it is counterproductive to restrict scientific activity in such a way that hypotheses that invoke the supernatural are ruled out.<ref>http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/2583/1/Methodological_Naturalism_2.pdf</ref>}}

{{quotebox|This is a doctrine that I endorse, though I realize that not all atheists will endorse it. The reason that I endorse the doctrine is that (as I’ll explain in Chapter 3) I think there is some evidence for an intelligent designer, and in fact, I think there is some evidence that the intelligent designer is God.<ref>''Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design'', p. 38</ref>}}

==External links==
*[http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/fac_monton.shtml Bradley Monton's faculty page] at the UoCB's website
*[http://bradleymonton.wordpress.com/ Bradley Monton’s Blog] (his title, not ours)
*[http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2010/01/an-atheist-defe.html An Atheist Defends Intelligent-Design Creationism], Matt Young, [[The Panda's Thumb]], 2 January 2010 (a review/critique of Monton's book)
*[http://www.springerlink.com/content/k305581557n60r31/ Can’t philosophers tell the difference between science and religion?: Demarcation revisited], Robert T. Pennock, ''Synthese'', Volume 178, Number 2, DOI: 10.1007/s11229-009-9547-3  (a scholarly article, full text available)

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