I'm not entirely sure that it is atheists that has a different interpretation of the Bible in the way that we don't really interpret it for the same reasons the christians interpret it. In a sense I think that atheists read the Bible more literally than any religious person tends to do these days. Because in order to survive in the modern enlightened world christians have had to give up most of the literal interpretations, the values, and the stories in their book because they are so incompatible with modern science, morality and society. So christians, in order to stay relevant, have been forced to make up excuses for what is written in their scripture. Make up symbolic meanings and tap dance and cherry pick so that the bile in that book is hidden and muddled from view. Having to do that opens the floodgates for as many interpretations as there are people which naturally leads to schisms and disagreement which is probably why Christianity is so shattered as it is today. And they probably try their hardest not to notice that, like they cherry pick in their scripture they say that since they all believe in the same god it'll probably be fine in the end and such excuses.
But as atheists we can read the bible for what it is and call them out on the nasty things in it, which they hate and rarely have a good response too.
I think one could almost say that atheists and fundamentalist christians are the only ones that read the bible for what it actually says.
But as atheists we can read the bible for what it is and call them out on the nasty things in it, which they hate and rarely have a good response too.
I think one could almost say that atheists and fundamentalist christians are the only ones that read the bible for what it actually says.
"History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets." -Yuval Noah Harari
