Play This Jewish Adventure Game

I really love adventure games. I do not mourn the death of LucasArts as often as I should. Somehow, I totally missed the existence of “The Shivah,” an adventure game where the user plays the part of Rabbi Russell Stone as he struggles with his faith and with the possible murder of one of his congregants.

It’s available in the Apple App Store and those places so go buy it and stuff!

I Can Now Share This Noah Trailer

A few weeks ago, you might recall seeing a post go up on my blog about Darren Aronofsky’s new Noah movie and quickly disappearing. That is because I got a cease and desist about the pirated trailer from the movie studio and didn’t feel like making a fuss. Which is crazy because I’m pretty sure the Bible is public domain.

Whatever. An official trailer has finally been released, and here it is!

Obviously, I will see this. Obviously. The only burning question I have: will Aronofsky go into Noah’s drunken stupor and possible rape at the hands of his son I talked about in episode 4? I hope so!

Most of the Bible’s Contradictions, Mapped

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Using the extensive data from the Skeptic’s Annotated Bible, Daniel Taylor has created this beautiful visualization of most of the Bible’s many contradictions. I say “most” because every reading of the Bible gives us new and fun contradictions we never thought we’d find.

Enjoy this thing! Click around! Bring it to shul! Share it with your Rabbi!

Pillar of Salt

Courtesy AmazingSuperPowers

Today’s comic at AmazingSuperPowers is made of all the best stuff. And some salt, I guess.

Their blog is pretty rad too. And sounds almost like a blurb for OMGWTFBIBLE:

The Bible is full of all types of crazy stuff! Did you know there’s a whole story about a dude who built a boat and he put EVERY ANIMAL into it because God felt like drowning everyone? And there’s another story about a dude who walked on water before turning his friend into a zombie? And in one section, it casually describes the END of the WORLD?

<h/t: John Passaro of Surge>