(February 19, 2014 at 3:50 pm)rensou Wrote: Hi there. I've been trying to read the bible to see firsthand the inconsistencies and horrible stuff present in there. Well atleast that is what I'm trying to do. I'm currently stuck in Leviticus and it's boring me so much. I'm thinking about skipping it. So any suggestions and/or tips.The thing is, there really is very little in the Bible that is either inspiring or controversial for the non-believer. Even here, where there is a lot of debate over the contents of the Bible, the amount of content that is actually being discussed is a small fraction of the whole. There are a lot of very bland stretches in the Bible and very few "juicy tidbits." If you are reading it in order to get to the "good parts" then you're going to get bored out of your mind.
There are a number of reasons that you only ever see a handful of Bible texts ever being used (not just here, pretty much anywhere). Primary among them, IMO, is that the Bible is just as compelling a read as any law journal would be for the layperson. Your best bet is to seek out sites that discuss the Bible and its contents and read those, then use any of the sites that have the text of the Bible to read those passages and the context. Reading the context can help you to see if the material you are reading is accurate or being manipulated for a specific agenda.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
