tips on reading the Bible

[DramaQueen]

No wonder your people are so uptight.

Don't you fear saying embarrassing stuff (or dangerous secrets (how realistic is pretty little liars, I don't watch it, I'm just asking)?

[Mister Agenda]

How important are the epistles to Christians?

Will a bible study group make reading the bible easier? (although they're not available in Libya for obvious reasons).

The epistles are crucial. Christianity would be more aptly named if it was called 'Paulianity'.

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Which part of the bible most tolerable to you? (for me in the koran, it's al-ikhlas and al-kawthar).

Luke 10: 29-37

[Tonus]

Don't you fear saying embarrassing stuff (or dangerous secrets (how realistic is pretty little liars, I don't watch it, I'm just asking)?

We're Americans! Saying embarrassing stuff is kind of like a rite of passage. Or if you're a politician, it's just something you do every time you open your mouth.

[Mister Agenda]

Wine is illegal. Why is everyone always suggesting alcohol?

It's a lubricant for the brain.

[Minimalist]

No wonder your people are so uptight.

Don't you fear saying embarrassing stuff (or dangerous secrets (how realistic is pretty little liars, I don't watch it, I'm just asking)?

Nope. I'm not trying to win Miss Congeniality around here.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I'm not up to speed on Libyan customs, so I don't know. Have you already started on the Bible?

I read at least 60 chapters in English and few of those in Arabic (and other languages even though I didn't understand much, I'm a language "geek") .

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I think I gave many hints on my identity by now.
Or am I just paranoid.

Does Libya have religious police searching out folks like you, like the Saudis have?

[Natachan]

I like the KJV for the poetry and tradition. Not so much for clarity.

[DramaQueen]

No, only vigilantes like the nawási (many people hate these guys, preachy even by the standards of tripoli)

Anyway, do I sound like a little "innocent" kid.

[Whateverist]

I'm not trying to win Miss Congeniality around here.

You would have had my vote.

[Clueless Morgan]

What's kindle?

It's the e-reader that Amazon sells. Go to Amazon.com and type in "Kindle" and it'll show you.

You can purchase electronic books on it and not have to worry about stuff being shipped and checked at a customs station.

You can also get an iPad and put the kindle app on it.

Libya is a cash society (check it out)

Hmm... Is there a way to get your hands on "gift" credit cards or anything like that? In the US we can purchase pre-paid credit cards that have, like $100 on them and give them as gifts to people instead of giving them cash. That would be a great way for you to purchase stuff online.

A gift VISA card or a gift Mastercard would be better for you (security-wise) than a proper credit card in your name since your name isn't attached to an account number for the card and it would be harder to develop a purchase history on a gift card that gets used up and tossed. If you're traveling out of the country or know someone you trust who is, see if you can get your hands on one.

Note:I didn't read much since preparatory school. There's not much material for adults that interests me. we don't have public libraries, and most books are religious themed, propaganda (we had gaddafi, white washed history in favor of muslim arabs and other Bullshit) and conspiracy stuff.
And then there's censorship.

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I'm posting from a smart phone.

See if this link will work for you:
http://infidels.org/library/

It's a secular web library with lots of articles about religion, pseudoscience, theism, creationism, etc. and they're all free.

Also Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/

It's an online library of free ebooks. Keep in mind with this site, though, that the books have to be older in order to even have a chance of finding them on here. It would be a decent place to look for 18th or 19th century books by Philosophers like Thomas Paine or Immanuel Kant, etc. But not for stuff by Ehrman which is very recent and protected by current copyrights.

And if worse comes to worse, I'm sure there are people on this site that could point you in the direction of torrent sites where you can (illegally) download ebooks and stuff.

Also, youtube. Not for ebooks, but for videos and documentaries and stuff. Can you get youtube in Libya?

I don't know how to do that (I don't have a debit card, and won't the customs check it).

This is where getting your hands on a kindle or iPad would be helpful, and also a prepaid gift card.

Which book of bible is the most boring?

All of them.

I'm not trying to win Miss Congeniality around here.

You would have had my vote.

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Oops, this should be in the AF members as cat memes thread...