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Podcast: Bible Stories for Atheists
Episode: Ruth - Why Don't You Come Up and Uncover My Feet Sometime?
Description: This week we blow through Ruth, one of the shorter books of the bible, in a single episode. We find out about Naomi, whose sons break religious law by marrying Moabite women, not that anyone mentions that. But when her husband and sons die in seemingly unrelated events, Naomi and her daughter-in-law, Ruth, return to Judah.Naomi and Ruth work on getting Ruth married off to one of Naomi's rich cousins because in this Christian "feminism" tale, you can't be a woman of value without a rich husband.Oi, Saturnalia everyone! Have a gr...