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Via Gizmodo<\/a>, I was reminded of a web site that was created recently, BibViz<\/a>, attempting to map the Bible's contradictions. While it tends to circulate among atheists, and to meet with adamant denials from conservatives, liberal Christians were among the first to point these sorts of things out \u2013 and even before us, there were people like St. Augustine, who was not exactly a liberal, talking of the Bible's absurdities<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Click through<\/a> to explore the contradictions \u2013 and if they are new or shocking to you, that just shows that you have not been reading the Bible particularly carefully or seriously or attentively.<\/p>\n

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Via Gizmodo, I was reminded of a web site that was created recently, BibViz, attempting to map the Bible’s contradictions. 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