That the writers of the Bible recognized a plurality of gods — were polytheists — is proved by the following ‘And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us’ (Gen....

When I speak, people know that in my gut, I’m bad. They feel better about being bad in their guts.

Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to be immeasurably superior to all other kinds of Elohim. The inscription on the...

If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every chain upon the limbs of heresy was music in the ear of God....