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Do you read the bible?
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RE: Do you read the bible?
(July 23, 2012 at 3:16 pm)Napoleon Wrote: Not really. There's plenty of respectable sources, people, and places that can give me that information without me reading it.

It's like saying you have to read 50 shades of grey to know it's shit.

Newsflash, you don't.

Let's say I've 'read the book reviews'.
Haha, I like your take but I'm not agreeing with reviews, I'm writing one (to continue your rather unfitting analogy), thus I can't rely entirely on what others say.

Quote:I bet you haven't delved into the quran, or the torah have you? Does that make you any less a rational and respectable atheist?

I think not.

Not as much as I'd have liked to but I'm going through lots of other books; they're on my book pile near the top, I would feel a better atheist if I'd considered the actual religious views and found nothing believable in them than simply the ones I am culturally or socially acquainted with.

Quote: Saying that because you haven't read the bible your worldview is ignorant, is incredibly ignorant.
That's not what I'm saying at all, rather that if you hold the antithetic view to religion, as we do, it is best to know what you disagree with. Furthermore, its functionally important for arguing with christians, as the tor'ah and qur'an is with jews and muslims respectively, and all others beyond that.

Quote:See response 1.

see counter-point 1
Religion is an attempt to answer the philosophical questions of the unphilosophical man.
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Do you read the bible? - by Marnie - July 22, 2012 at 9:19 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by Minimalist - July 22, 2012 at 9:49 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by Erinome - July 22, 2012 at 10:05 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by C.W. Sims - July 22, 2012 at 10:09 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by Erinome - July 22, 2012 at 10:15 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by frankiej - July 23, 2012 at 12:20 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by padraic - July 23, 2012 at 6:28 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by C.W. Sims - July 22, 2012 at 10:16 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by KnockEmOuttt - July 23, 2012 at 12:32 am
RE: Do you read the bible? - by Reforged - July 23, 2012 at 1:09 am
RE: Do you read the bible? - by KnockEmOuttt - July 23, 2012 at 2:05 am
RE: Do you read the bible? - by Erfalion - July 23, 2012 at 3:14 am
RE: Do you read the bible? - by padraic - July 23, 2012 at 3:27 am
RE: Do you read the bible? - by Zen Badger - July 23, 2012 at 6:24 am
RE: Do you read the bible? - by GodlessGirl - July 23, 2012 at 7:12 am
RE: Do you read the bible? - by Zen Badger - July 23, 2012 at 7:16 am
RE: Do you read the bible? - by Faith No More - July 23, 2012 at 8:11 am
RE: Do you read the bible? - by C.W. Sims - July 23, 2012 at 9:45 am
RE: Do you read the bible? - by Napoléon - July 23, 2012 at 9:47 am
RE: Do you read the bible? - by Marnie - July 23, 2012 at 12:15 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by Whateverist - July 23, 2012 at 12:28 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by Creed of Heresy - July 23, 2012 at 12:40 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by Norfolk And Chance - July 23, 2012 at 12:40 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by liam - July 23, 2012 at 1:57 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by Creed of Heresy - July 23, 2012 at 1:58 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by Napoléon - July 23, 2012 at 1:59 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by liam - July 23, 2012 at 2:32 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by Napoléon - July 23, 2012 at 3:16 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by liam - July 23, 2012 at 3:33 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by Napoléon - July 23, 2012 at 3:42 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by liam - July 23, 2012 at 6:00 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by Napoléon - July 23, 2012 at 6:32 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by frankiej - July 23, 2012 at 2:18 pm
RE: Do you read the bible? - by Jackalope - July 23, 2012 at 2:55 pm

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