Why are YOU an Atheist?

[Vincenzo Vinny G.]

But properly speaking, the Bible isn't one book. Nobody judges the Bible historically or from a position of literary criticism as one book. This is just Christians and Jews and religious ideologues (including atheists) who speak from within literary criticism of the Bible as if it is one book, thanks to the Council of Nicaea.

Properly speaking, the Bible is a collection of many books, some fiction some non-fiction. Others combining the two.

You see this book:
http://books.google.pt/books?id=puuQM4Dx...dy&f=false

Although it only has one name on the cover, each chapter was written by a different person. Each chapter was written by an expert on the particulars of that chapter's content.
Is it just a collection of different books? or one book with many chapters?

Does it matter?

Of course. The books within the "Bible" were never meant to come together to form one book. They span centuries, written by vastly different authors, many in different languages and countries.

If I combine Mein Kampf with The God Delusion, The End of Faith, the Bhagvad Gita, and a set of Encyclopedia Brittanica, is it "one book"?

Would you classify it as fiction or non-fiction? Autobiographical?

As atheists we need to be in line with academia here. Hating religion is not an excuse to divest ourselves of reality.