The Unholy Truth

The Unholy Truth

The Bible’s Dirty Secret Was an Edit Job

Forget holy revelation. The so-called Word of God is a cut-and-paste project stitched together by editors with knives, grudges, and rent to pay.

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Tanner the Humanist
Sep 17, 2025
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An open Bible with red editor’s marks, scissors, and patched pages, symbolizing how the text was edited and rewritten by men rather than divinely dictated.

The holiest book on earth? Wrong. Sit down. The Bible is less ‘Word of God’ and more ‘Word of whoever had the pen and scissors that day.’ The dirty secret isn’t locked in some lost scroll or buried under the Vatican. It’s right in plain sight.

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