Atheist archaeologists and grave robbers rant

Is there a difference between archaeologists and grave robbers? Ha-ha...Some people just annoy me when they show their ignorance about logical reasoning and religious belief.

Can you imagine somebody saying that King Solomon never existed because there is no archaeological evidence that he did?

Perhaps, the evidence that President Lincoln existed because his image is etched on Mount Rushmore for future archaeologists?

Such rabid nonsense! So what if the writers of the Old Testament were spread over centuries and not over a specific period?

Folklore is based on the oral tradition of passing down the history of a community through the ages.

When somebody who can write now decides to put it down in writing centuries later, does that mean that those personalities mentioned in the local oral tradition never lived?

This is really the first time that I realized that some dubious archaeologists are quite callous in their attitude to the findings they unearth.

I am sorry but 'Biblical archaeology' sounds like crap to me. Nothing personal, just being realistic, you know...

Some relevant excerpts:

[....That doesn't mean archaeologists are fully in agreement: ..... believers shouldn't feel threatened - even though some of the claims in the show may seem to equate the absence of evidence with evidence of absence.

"Anybody who says that Abraham never existed has no archaeological proof for that," Shanks said. "That's a matter of faith and an understanding of the way stories developed. But if someone wants to say we have no proof that Abraham existed, that's true."

You could even argue that it wouldn't make much of a difference even if every Bible story were proven true. In fact, that's exactly the argument made in Luke 16. You can also find biblical evidence to back up claims from "The Bible's Buried Secrets" that may seem controversial at first blush - for example, the claims about goddess worship among the Jews....]

Oh, one more thing. I guess the slave trade never happened because there is no archaeological evidence of the wooden ships that packed them like sardines to America?

I know. The really inconvenient truth is that their direct descendants exist today as Blacks or African Americans in the USA and elsewhere today.

By the way, what do archaeologists eat on the job? Somebody should end those cricket, mud cake and sandfly diets they dwell on? Ha-ha...