Have you read the good book?

[Angrboda]

In the other thread on reading common atheist literature, someone mentioned that they'd read the bible twice.  I personally haven't read the bible and I was wondering how many others were like me and hadn't read the bible.

So the question is simple.  Have you read the bible?

If you are an Atheist, it should be required reading! At least if you want to be informed, and know what you are against. 

I'm against bible believing religions? Is that how you see it? Why am I not instead against Veda believing religions? The Tao Te Ching? The Analects? You seem to imply that yours is the only religion I need to be prepared to face. Au contraire. Let me assure you that I'm not well read in many religious texts. Do you think that yours is special for some reason?

What person goes into any conflict w/o studying their adversaries first? That would be foolish.

The truth of Christian behavior isn't contained in the bible. Whether there is a literal hell or not is not contained in the bible, but rather in the minds of believers who are continually reinterpreting things to suit their objections. The text is not so important as the process by which they arrive at their conclusions. Studying the bible won't help with that.