How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture

by Dan Kimball

shouldn’t touch the “pigskin”—the carcass of a pig—since the Bible says it is off-limits. This joke about biblical prohibitions on playing football became popular enough that it was mentioned in a Golden Globe award-winning national television show.