1. Comment #84616 by windweaver on November 2, 2007 at 9:37 pm

I note that the mantra of Ken Ham at his Answers in Genesis site is "The bible-true in every verse".
Why, then, isn't Ham living like this guy did? Surely he's a hypocrite for not doing so.

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2. Comment #84617 by Pieter on November 2, 2007 at 9:40 pm

I love The Hour. seriously, everyone outside of canada is missing out.

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3. Comment #84618 by Theocrapcy on November 2, 2007 at 9:45 pm

"everyone outside of canada is missing out"

There's this thing called the interweb, and something they call youtube you might have heard about. ;)

Seriously though, yes its a great program, the dawkins and hitchens ones are good also. Unfortunately in Aus, we're stuck with Letterman and the Today Show as our dose of N. American tv. Sad.

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4. Comment #84635 by JamesDB on November 3, 2007 at 1:43 am

Im a canadian and a big fan of george stroumbo. He is a actually getting a spot on a local radio station out here in Van. BC which just so happens to be on sundays. I didn't like the part about how he prayed a lot and ended up feeling like he was actually talking to someone at that time. I was raised in a christian household and used to pray but i always had that im only talking to myself feeling. I really dislike the idea that if you pray over and over you start to feel like you are talking to someone, isn't that along the lines of a mental illnesses. I guess religion really does fall into the category of mental illness. It messes with minds in a way few things can.

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5. Comment #84646 by BicycleRepairMan on November 3, 2007 at 3:50 am

Very interesting project, I think I just found another book to buy..

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6. Comment #84648 by bluebird on November 3, 2007 at 3:59 am

This, and an earlier book about reading the entire set of Encyclopedia in one year are slated for the big screen:
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.J._Jacobs

Per this book: www.ajjacobs.com/books/yolb.asp

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7. Comment #84670 by sornord on November 3, 2007 at 7:04 am

Interesting comment near the end...

Jacobs said he never prayed but doing so as part of this project led him to believe (only during course the project, one hopes.) His comment was about how much behavior influences thought.

To me this demonstrates how prayer is more than just a delusional comfort technique - thumb sucking for adults? - but also a tool by which the delusion is ingrained into and perpetuated by human psychology: the bedrock of the brain washing.

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." - Joseph Goebbels

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8. Comment #84700 by Greybishop on November 3, 2007 at 8:35 am

That is not at all what I expected. I think I might have to buy a copy of his book.

One of my personal pet peeves with religion and religious folk in general is the notion of the faithful that they are living the Bible literally to the best of their ability. Having read the Bible a couple of times, I know that to be a lie, but it will be nice to have an accessible book to reference.

I'm not sure that this man has done himself a favour by doing this. It seems to me that he was better off BEFORE he did this, as he claims to have been agnostic and now is a "reverant agnostic", but it's his life and he's welcome to it. I loved his wife's reaction to the project. She deserves the year of foot massages!

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9. Comment #84732 by a-teapot-ist on November 3, 2007 at 11:20 am

Someone needs to explain to Mr. Jacobs that christianity is not the only religion out there. So he needs to specify that he went, like every other believer, and took the faith to task that was most convenient. His always referring to "religion", when he only delved into one, is kind of disingenuous.

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10. Comment #84740 by tieInterceptor on November 3, 2007 at 11:58 am

I think he misses the point, throwing some peables to the face of the 70 year old adulterer "eye for an eye" did not invalidate the other commandment to stone him... TO DEATH,

I don't get how he can claim the bible is so full of gratefulnesses and wisdom and it's enriching, when there is stoning to death as part of it...

In youtube I ran by mistake into a video of a prisoner being decapitated with a rather small knife by the Taliban... that was VERY shocking and somehow traumatizing, I also seen the pictures of the woman half buried about to be stoned to death... those images remind me that words like "stoned to death" do have a horrible translation to acts in the real world, like shouting fire on a crowded theatre, they are not just words.

I think is not funny to gloss over stoning to death. Like it balances itself out because there is other good bits on the book.

for me it's not about balance, its a strike and out point.

If it's part of the holy text, then that is it! bin the book, find a better one, and stop making excuses.

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11. Comment #84746 by Matt7895 on November 3, 2007 at 12:18 pm

If I saw this book in a bookshop near me I would buy it.

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12. Comment #84767 by Vardu on November 3, 2007 at 1:44 pm

I was going to do the same thing with the Koran but, for one thing, I couldn't lay my hands on a airliner to crash into any buildings in order to take out a few infidels.

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13. Comment #84820 by Duff on November 3, 2007 at 5:50 pm

Set the bears on those disobedient little children. Let's see him live up to that biblical injunction. What a freak!

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14. Comment #84861 by clatz on November 4, 2007 at 1:34 am

Check out the link below the article to a film on christian boot camps:

http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/video.php?id=1316

Run for the hills people!

Scary.

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15. Comment #84881 by dazzjazz on November 4, 2007 at 2:45 am

The media player doesn't work for me on that site. Does anyone know if the video lives anywhere else?

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16. Comment #84890 by NJS on November 4, 2007 at 3:52 am

Missed opportunity to ask what we use to cherry pick the "wonderful" bits.

Also agree on the missing "to death".

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17. Comment #85369 by Tyler Durden on November 5, 2007 at 3:19 pm

Wait for the apologists to start with the usual "That's not my version of the bible he used, I only follow the nice bits!" rubbish!!

I've read "The Know-It-All", his attempt to read the entire Encyclopædia Britannica - all 32 volumes - very, very funny book, recommend it.

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18. Comment #86106 by TeapotTheist on November 8, 2007 at 6:50 am

dazzjazz - it works for me in Internet Explorer, but not in my standard browser (Firefox)

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