Help! Atheist Needs a Bible, Advice Wanted!

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Thursday June 16, 2005 · 12:05 PM PDT

2005/06/16 · 12:05

I have not owned a Bible for a few decades, since I gave one, "The Jerusalem Bible", to a nominal Christian. I own a Koran, with a lot of commentary, and a Bible Concordance, but with all the wing-nuttery being flung around, I think I need a Bible again to check their sources. But when I went to the bookstore, I was overwhelmed by the choices today!

I would like one with commentary on word origins and reliability of sources. Sr. Helen Prejean's book, "The Death of Innocents" has a passage about Antonin Scalia's support of the death penalty based on Romans 13. She contends that he is mistaken because, for example, he misinterprets the phrase translated as "wrath of the sword" to refer to capital punishment, when the Latin word used, "machaira", means a dagger used by the Roman military to keep the peace, not a broad-sword used to execute people.

This level of analysis would be very helpful to contradict errors in the arguments of our opposition. Can anyone suggest a Bible with this level of commentary?

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Sunday April 10, 2005 · 5:35 AM PDT

2005/04/10 · 05:35

I like voting my proxy statements. It makes me feel better about owning stock. I vote against any board member who also serves at another stock I own, against any member who admits to serving on more than 3 boards of major companies, and against the independent auditors, because they're not. I also vote for most shareholder proposals, which are mostly about corporate stuff, like how board members are elected, or how CEO's should be compensated.

Merck is always good for some political shareholder proposals. Last year some nuns wanted to ban stem-cell research (I always read these things, because stuff like this slips in), and there is always a proposal to eliminate testing on animals (this year PETA proposed this to GE), but I jumped when I saw this:

7. STOCKHOLDER PROPOSAL CONCERNING AVAILABILITY OF COMPANY
PRODUCTS TO CANADIAN WHOLESALERS

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