Link to me, or the Bible gets it!

You wouldn't hurt Leviticus, would you?

Because otherwise how will people learn the truth that God hates shrimp?

(Also? Cocktail-sauce.)

Only 1 comment on this thread? Impossible! Surely God must be at work here. J/K!

Seriously though, I would do a post/trackback/linkie thing on my own blog for you, but I just posted about how the laws of logic are material right before I saw your post here.

And since Im an atheist, I kinda want to see your threat carried out. Maybe you could take the Quran hostage next?? ;)

Well, I would put a link but being a godless atheist myself I'm not particularly inclined to save that particular waste of toilet paper.

Those things can do for substitute TP under emergency circumstances. Or funny ones.

This post is an oldy but a goody! I find it interesting that when you initially posted this, there was a fracus about the Koran and toilets, but right now it is about Muslims and comics. Who knows what other instances this would be suitable for???

Well, I'm all for desecration of "holy" texts, but in the Christians' favor I will point out that you're in very little, if any, physical danger from this. Try it with a Koran, and they'll put out a hit on you.

-jcr

I just checked my "Buddy Christ(tm)" an' he's winking and giving a thumbs up. Go for it.

How about you take that razor blade and cut out all the homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, and smiting? Cut the stuff about selling your daughters into concubinage, too. You can leave the bits about helping the poor, the quaint dietary laws, and the part about not mixing fibers.

Oh, and by all means get rid of the stuff about God hating crustaceans. What did the poor little shrimp ever do to God?

Whenever I read one of those holy books, I want to get out my blue pencil. Those prophets could have used a good editor.

My posting under my real name precludes me from adding anything to this conversation.

Heather, Thomas Jefferson did that for you already. See Jefferson's Bible a PBS. I think he was right to concentrate on the New Testament, though. Taking a red marker to the Old Testament would result in a very short book.

I'm trying to figure out exactly why you don't want links or trackbacks. Is it the hosting costs?

I mean, really. Isn't this about the same as if Michelle Malkin threatened to retire if liberal bloggers didn't start saying nice things about her?

You got it backwards. I was stamping my adorable little foot and demanding attention in the form of links and trackbacks.

So, the fewer links you get the worse it is for your copy of the bible?

I just have one question:
Is there any way for me to remove links from your site?

I'll give you 10 comments if you'll add a Koran to the mix.

go for it.

OK, you asked for it, you got it...

PZ Myers a.k.a. Davy Jones

Personally I'd just put the bible in the bathroom as toilet paper. Just rip out a page every time the need overcomes you.

Hey PZ. It's good to see you out there. To everyone else, this man pulled me from the depths of silliness and into the light. The world is a much more fascinating place because of it too.

Why are people so fascinated with stories when the truth is so much more awe inspiring?

So here's to you PZ. You can't rescue them all, but you did with me. And my son as well. I was so proud when he recently when the hype was going about ID being in classrooms. He told me he would purposely flunk out of an ID class if it ever came into being.

I took him to church with his grandmother (she's 86, and wanted family there .. I have a heart). He came out of there saying that Catholics are idiots. Well, he needed to see it for himself.

My first comment on this site:

Wait! Wait! Don't do it yet! I haven't figured out yet which of the three Paul conversion stories is true, or, or which of the different Creation stories, or which of the Easter morning stories!

You are forgiven for going along with your grandmother. My kids have been to church, too, and I've told them it's fine to go any time they want.

While I have no particular truck with that particular book---it's a book. You know---words arranged into sentences, bound at one edge into a volume.

A Book.

I just can't get behind trashing a book, even that one. I mean, c'mon... IT'S A BOOK!

I mean, Dear Adam Felbers' Lobster, it's a BOOK! Put those razor blades away, please! Books are not to be tampered with---not even that one!

Thanks,

The Incoherent Bibliophiliac Jihad.

PZ:

My kids have been to church, too, and I've told them it's fine to go any time they want.

Just as long as they're very careful to wash all the church cooties off before they come back into the house...

Bet you didn't know that this whole thing started with a typo - it was actually meant to be called 'The Bibble'

Well Good Gravy!

What PZ is proposing to do to the bible with razor blades is no different at all from what all good xtians et al. do to their holy books already, at least figuratively. Cut and paste, man! They do it every time they cite snippits of verse typically taken way out of any literary or historical context to support some loony notion or another. Hell, cut and paste enough and one can make the telephone directory say whatever one wants. I'll bet that if PZ handy enough with his razor, he could remake that bible into "The Origin of Species!" That might start a riot!

PZ,
I love your Blog, being a confirmed atheist myself, but I think the Bible/Urine thing is a bit undergraduate.
I also think the Bible should be viewed as fairy-tales, but sophomoric invective just gives the wingnuts some purchase.

Uh, I don't condone booktrashing, even though there seems to be more of those than actual readers.

I would instead chip some leftover cross down for kindling. Those I don't care for.

So anyway, why is it called the Book (biblos) and not the Babel? The later figured prominently in it, and it makes as much sense.

Well, aren't you the daring one. You ought not to give this stuff away for free on the 'net, seeing as how its sooo provocative and challenging that you could probably get an NEA grant.

Yeesh. The Jihad is threatening to swallow us all whole, and all libs can come up with is their usual �pater les bourgeois

Anyway, I gotcher link, right here.

And lest you get the wrong idea, I'll have you know that I'm very proud of my panda-lanche.

Few people realize that PZ Myer's "Link to me, or the Bible gets it!" post drew heavily on material rapped by a certain (unspecified) U.S. president...
Constitutional Christening

PZ, I've tried a couple of times since you've moved to scienceblogs, but trackbacks to PhaWRONGula (done via HaloScan) don't seem to be working. HaloScan says the ping was sent successfully, but I've not seen the trackbacks appear here.

We are the good guys. We do not trash books. Book trashing is for the anti-intellectuals and totalitarians.

Go ahead!

Trash your copy of the Origin as well.

Even though I'm a rabid bibliophile, I've thought for some time that assuming that there is no additional information lost through destruction of a book, there is no reason to be concerned about the loss of a single copy.

I'd like to see someone like Penn and Teller pull a similar stunt to show that evolution is NOT a religion. Have them destroy a copy of the Bible, the Koran, the Torah, and the Origin. Make it clear that every copy is brand new, and has no personal notes or personal meaning to anyone.

I imagine that most people wouldn't particularly care. But they could compare the reactions from the people who do. I anticipate that the reactions would show that far more people are upset about the destruction of a "holy" text than The Origin.

Finally, don't get me wrong. The destruction of a single copy of a much distributed book doesn't bother me. An organized book-burning does. Not so much because of the destruction of the books themselves, but because it is a celebration of hatred against ideas.

On the other hand, anyone who wants to damage my original edition of Augustus De Morgan's A Budget of Paradoxes will have to kill me first. There are some books I own which I attached to at the level of a primitive fetish.

Sheesh some people out there need to get a sense of humor!

I haven't seen them under the endangered species list. So if we "off" a few here and there what's the big deal eh?

I knew you wouldn't pee on a book.

I'm a Christian and I found this post hilarious! Some of us do have a sense of humor. And, I'm secure enough in my beliefs that I don't find this threatening and I get the irony. I am offended, though, that you chose Coke and not Pepsi. What were you thinking?

Pepsi? Pepsi??? You've got to be joking. That's the Devil's drink.

"The destruction of a single copy of a much distributed book doesn't bother me. An organized book-burning does. Not so much because of the destruction of the books themselves, but because it is a celebration of hatred against ideas."

Well said.

Dr. Free-Ride: the bit about shrimp in Leviticus is a mistranslation. The original said something closer to

None of the sea creatures with many legs shall be clean to you. The octopus and the squid, because they have many limbs and have no bones, are an abomination unto the LORD, and any man who touches them shall be ceremonially unclean until sundown. In fact, the LORD doesn't know what he was thinking the day He created them.

PZ: How come you don't have a copy of the Bible? Don't you travel? Don't you know that most hotels have complimentary copies? I got an NIV for free from some group proselytizing on campus, years ago.

Cephalopods, an abomination? I reject this god.

Sidewalks have gum stuck on them, but that doesn't mean I collect the wads and bring them home with me.

Oh, man, not Revelations!! A little acid, wait for the flow.. & then read that book.. It's the best one!
If you gotta, the books of the old testament are fair game.. all that begatting, spilling of seed, killing of thine enemies & such.. p_ss on it all I say!

oh.., nothing makes the kidneys flow like cheap beer.. ;-))

there were two books I thought of burning.. Yes, I know.. once you start.. (what's that the repubs say 'bout drugs? ;-)), but.. One claimed smoking tobacco was good for your health.. I kid you not.. I wasn't sure if I should laugh or cry! A whole book!, as in nearly 200 pages! The other preached that plastic, filling our land (I didn't even know the land was empty?) was neccessary for prosperity & health. In the end, I just shook my head & walked away.

tolerance is a funny thing..

arensb: Actually, the cephalopods are evidence of intelligent design; it's just that humans aren't the species being intelligently designed. Their eyes don't have blind spots. They don't have badly-engineered joints that get strained, pop out, or otherwise break down. (See more details about this theory, including the reason humans exist....)

It's broken. It doesn't make sense.

I personally don't care if you want to pee on Leviticus. In fact, it's too bad you don't have the requisite body parts to use Leviticus as a tampon, which would be even better.

If I had those body parts, I assure you that I would not inflict Leviticus on them.

A book that has been populat for more than a century or two must have at least SOME bits worth reading. (I can't really remember any in the Bible right now, but then it's been a while since I have read anything in that one.)

Still, when I want to read something religious that is also fun reading, I prefer the Edda. (Yes, I am descended from the Vikings :-))

PZ left this straight line two weeks ago:

My kids have been to church, too, and I've told them it's fine to go any time they want.

Just make sure they understand that if they go during a service, they'll have to sit in the pew.

Sorry, but you people are idiots. I find it really interesting how most atheistic "satire" rarely rises above what you'd expect from a middle-schooler.

In your own way you're about as mature and sophisticated as those raving lunatics burning flags & embassies, & killing priests over a bunch of drawings..

Keep it up..

I am amused at the way a vague threat to a piece of paper gets equated to the embassy burnings, which were in response to a piece of paper...and the poor sap doesn't even recognize the irony.

Congrats on your Loufax nomination. You'll get me vote.

Oops. I meant Koufax. Hard to type laying sideways in the dark.

I voted for you in several categories so a) I hope I get invited to the orgy and b) I just had my uncle tell me that because my husband and I meditate we're not really atheist. Nope, apparently we just think we are! Yes he said that. When I called him on his fallacious reasoning he got even weirder.

I wrote a post about my anger and frustration on getting slowly inundated with more and more "god" crap. I'm with you on this. My indifference is slowly turning to rage.

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