(April 13, 2014 at 9:28 pm)Beccs Wrote: The thing is, many atheists, particularly former believers, like myself, have read the whole bible objectively, which helped us become atheists. The believers generally read it through their god glasses, and usually not the whole thing - just the sections they agree with and think should apply to them.
His point is moot, anyways, because it's not as if there are secret details that are going to somehow magically explain the overall narrative that we're all familiar with, thanks to Christians.
Their objections about not having read the bible are simply a distraction from the fact that god sacrificed himself to get around rules he created, which makes no sense.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
