Just a reminder to those folks who follow P&T:BS, tonight’s the new episode where they take on the Bible. Might be easy to miss with all the hoopla over the last Friends.
Of course, as most SD’ers know it’s kinda like shooting fish in a barrel, finding contradictions and such in it. Should still be entertaining, I’ll bet.
10:00pm (Eastern), SHOWTIME.
I never miss an episode. but I fear that Penn and Teller are just preaching to the choir (as it were). I suspect that theists are too scared of having their views on the historical accuracy of the Bible challenged to watch.
FWIW, they are not pout to debunk religion in general. From this article:
I always wondered what it was like to hear atheists witnessing.
“I go to an atheist church. We have people come and testify that they were once handicapped, and that now … they still are.”
— Paula Poundstone
gobear’s quote kinda makes it sound like they’re not plugging atheism, actually, only trashing biblical literalism.
What channel? 
Showtime. Thursdays at 10:00EST. Reruns on Showtime’s thirty billion other channels throughout the week.
Of course. Nobody can prove that there’s no God; atheists just don’t think the evidence for God holds up. If Lib wants to believe that an all-powerful, all-loving spirit watches out for him, nobody can gainsay him. If Lib were to say that the spirit had revealed to him that humans were created 6,000 years ago in a small garden in the Middle East, then we’d have a problem because that proposition can be tested.
Elvis didn’t do no drugs!
Great fucking episode. Too bad all the Xstians didn’t watch it.
I only watched bits and pieces, but it seemed like they really didn’t go all-out making this one like they had with other episodes. I love Bullshiit, but this episode was all
Penn: “The Bible is ridiculous.”
[Cut to terrible '20s silent film clip]
[Cut to Expert]
Expert: “As an expert, the Bible is ridiculous.”
[Cut to thinly-veiled antagonist]
Antagonist: “Well, this statement is regrettable and poorly thought out–”
[Frame freezes mid-word. Cut to Penn.]
Penn: “Witty repartee!”
Yeah. There should have at least been some funny hidden camera gags. 
(Elvis didn’t do no drugs!)
When the guy from Skeptic magazine said that the miracles Jesus performed wouldn’t be very hard for Penn and Teller to perform Jesus’ miracles on stage, I thought for a moment they’d do it. Now THAT would be a great show! Think of it! Teller walking on water; Penn turning water into wine.
In fact, if anybody from the show is reading this–please do that next season!
I also expected them to do it, and was surprised they didn’t.
[Bobby Hill]
The Amazing JEE-ZUS!
[Bobby Hill]
They did both of those, along with representative recreations of the plagues of Egypt.
Wow, they did? I must have been distracted.
I saw the water-into-wine thing, but when did anyone walk on water?
I really was thinking more along the lines of turning enough water into wine to get a whole wedding party drunk, as Jesus was said to do.
At the start of the show Teller walked across a small inflatable wading pool; when he stepped out you could see that there were blocks of wood fastened to the bottom of his shoes.
Incidentally, in Penn & Teller’s book How to Play With Your Food, they describe a water-to-wine trick (or at least a Coke-to-7-Up trick) that you can perform at McDonalds.
Only problem is, it requires a tabletop ash tray. Good luck finding an ash tray indoors these days.
Y’know, that’s so Teller. Gotta love them. But still but IMO if you’re gonna be pointing out the foibles of biblical literalism, smart-ass gags may only create a distraction.