What Is The Bible?

Dan Beecher (0:00)

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Dan McClellan (0:28)

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Dan McClellan (2:15)

There are an awful lot of people on social media who just lap that up. They just suckle that garbage from the fetid and swollen teat of this fascist regime, because it makes them feel good about being on the right team.

Dan Beecher (2:30)

Right.

Dan McClellan (2:31)

And I think the point of the Beatitudes is what the world imagines to be the right team and the team that's going to win is the wrong team. Hey, everybody, I'm Dan McClellan.

Dan Beecher (2:49)

And I'm Dan Beecher.

Dan McClellan (2:50)

And this is Data Over Dogma, where we increase public access to the academic study of the Bible and religion, and we combat the spread of misinformation about the same. How are things today, Dan?

Dan Beecher (3:01)

Things are good. I'm looking forward to this one. We got a lot, it's fun stuff that we're gonna be discussing today. We're gonna be challenging some people out here. Matter of fact, we're going full combat mode in terms of the misinformation out there. You know, you always talk about us combating. And we're gonna get our battle rattle on and really get out into it, because at very least in the second half of the show, we gotta go up against the Department of Homeland Security. So that's gonna be some rough stuff. That'll be a lot of fun. In the first half of the-

Dan McClellan (3:39)

Or the Department of War, if you're nasty.

Dan Beecher (3:41)

And they are.

Dan McClellan (3:43)

And they are very nasty.

Dan Beecher (3:44)

But no, this is just DHS mostly. Anyway, we'll get to it. Before that, though, we're gonna do a What's That? And it's sort of maybe the biggest What's That? We have.

Dan McClellan (3:58)

It's a doozy.

Dan Beecher (3:59)

For this show. Because it's going to be, what's that, the Bible? So that's a big one. So maybe we should just dive right in to What's That?

So, Dan, what is that? The Bible.

Dan McClellan (4:23)

The Bible. Yes, this is the big one. And kind of the thesis statement of this What is That? Is that there is no such thing as the Bible.

Dan Beecher (4:36)

How dare you, sir.

Dan McClellan (4:39)

I dare.

Dan Beecher (4:40)

This is coming from a guy who wrote a book called The Bible Says So.

Dan McClellan (4:44)

Yes, and where I went in and said, first, there's no such thing in the Bible, and second, there's no such thing as the Bible saying anything at all. And I was like, look, I didn't come up with the title, the publisher said, you gotta call it so.