Bullshit Season 2: Penn & Teller take on the Bible
Archive: Skeptics & Atheists
So long already faithless, skeptical that I’m normally not interested in proofs that irrational people believe groundless and foolish things. But Penn & Teller’s Bullshit was funny. The guy with the magnet helmet alone was worth the time spent watching. Ah, the Feng Shui episode: watching a few expensive frauds contract one another in their presentation of home decoration aligned with the cosmic and spiritual forces. Since I no longer have cable TV I won’t get to see season two until it comes out on DVD.
‘This season we are doing Bible BS, because the Bible does have claims you can look into with archaeology … Things like perhaps the Jews being enslaved by the Egyptians, which looks like most of the archaeology now says that probably never happened,” Jillette says. “You’re looking at someone who’s going to get a bullet in his head, there’s no doubt about it.”
No one’s safe — not even Jesus
2 · Posted by: timmy_m on May 7, 2004 04:22 PM
Last nights episode of Bullshit took on the Bible. I have to say this was one of the best episodes yet. I loved Penn’s repeated remark ” Elvis never took no drugs”, proving no matter how much evidence you have supporting the truth, some people just won’t accept it. And, let’s face it, “Elvis never took no drugs”, is just as true as “He is not here, for He has risen”!!!
3 · Posted by: Richard on May 7, 2004 04:35 PM
I don’t have cable TV anymore but a friend is taping the show for me. I’ve been looking forward to that episode. I just hope that I find it good-humored. Taking Christianity seriously is tedious.
The only thing to do with born-again fundagelicals is laugh at them.
4 · Posted by: pot8r on May 9, 2004 12:26 PM
I too thoroughly enjoyed the bible episode but I unfortunately did not write down the verses mentioned during the show. Did anyone get them? If anyone can post them here it would be greatly appreciated, at least by me…
5 · Posted by: Healer on May 10, 2004 12:53 AM
When will this episode be available for purchase? It was awesome!! I too would also like to find out the different verses mentioned. Anyone?
6 · Posted by: Darren on June 8, 2004 04:08 PM
Penn and Teller have a very interesting show. It’s hard to believe that some people still, well, believe. Anyhow, these are the verses that P&T quote near the end of the episode.
Exodus 21, verse 7 (sell daughter into slavely)
Exodus 35, verse 2 (death to those working on sabbath)
Corrinthians 11:14 (man with long hair is a shame unto him)
con’t verses 19 through 24 (man stay away from woman while she’s on her period)
7 · Posted by: Richard on June 8, 2004 05:01 PM
I guess it was unfair of me to expect them to say something novel or interesting about this. It was all such old hat unless you are very young or simply ignorant about what fundagelicals think.
Too middle-of-the-road as well. It could’ve been more amusing if they’d talked to creationists and not a Christian academic they didn’t really seem to understand.
8 · Posted by: Darren on June 13, 2004 11:16 PM
As for beating a dead horse with the bible episode - There really isn’t anything new one could say about that topic, not until the revised edition comes out I guess… ;)
The duo focused their attention on the creationists during their first season, episode 8. Funny stuff, I assume they wanted something different this time around.
9 · Posted by: MY2K on June 20, 2004 08:36 PM
Hi all.
I loved this episode, about time somebody put all the controversy into one honkin’ episode. I’m one of those agnostic pseudo-athiests, heh.
Thanks to Darren on the quotes, but I’m wondering if anyone can email me with the passages for the law about how two men shouldn’t sleep together, or that it’s fine to stone your disobedient children, both of which were mentioned in this episode.
I need them to prove a ‘friend’ of mine wrong as well for my own knowledge, and I can’t seem to find them anywhere in my version of the bible.
My email: paganpacman@hotmail.com (there’s a joke in there but I won’t repeat it)
Thanks a whole lot! ;)
10 · Posted by: bullshit on August 10, 2004 01:43 PM
Every Bible verse the “expert” quoted to discredit was completely taken out of context. I always appreciated Penn & Teller’s work and found them entertaining, but my knowlede of the Bible leads me to believe that they’re more focused on propoganda to prove their points, rather than objective evidence.
11 · Posted by: Gravel Girty on September 11, 2004 08:58 PM
I am brand new to this site. What channel was the show on? I feel I am missing something. I’d like to watch the show too. I find it very interesting.
13 · Posted by: debt consolidation on January 1, 2005 10:50 AM
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1 · Posted by: AMEN on May 6, 2004 10:43 PM
My hats off to you! I couldn’t have said it better myself. what I mean is that I really couldn’t. I have been trying to tell people this for years. I felt so smart that i figured this RELIGIOUS CRAP out before them. Im so glad you picked this topic for one of your shows. I WISH I TAPED IT! Be Well