Why the Bible is a Big Fat Lie and I'm an Idiot for Believing It - Bart Ehrman Interviewed by Stephen Colbert

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[Beat Attitude]

This is verrry funny! Ehrmann is a very clever guy though. Not many people can make this much money from largely unsubstantiated, conspiracy-based pseudo-academic, historic pontification (apart from Dan Brown)?

[ryan]

Come on, don't diss Dan Brown. As Stewart Lee pointed out, it takes a great author to write sentences like " the famous man looked at the red cup" ;-). And creationism, especially the young earth variety, is a lot sillier than the Da Vinci Code :-).

[m0ok]

It's funny, but the joke is not on Ehrman. I take it everyone realises that Colbert's performances are ironic and that his show lampoons Republicans, Evangelical Christians and the conservative American "right" in general?

[David Keen]

If our theology seminars at college had been like this, I'd have remembered a whole lot more. Ehrmann is completely up the creek on 'my God, my God' - the first line of a psalm which goes on to describe the crucifixion - Jesus knew exactly what he was saying.