Enlighten Yourselves

[Bob Kelso]

Late to the party but better late than never.

All I ask of you guys here, is to read a bible. For me, the bible personally enlightened me and reinforces my religion. Instead of retaining your knowledge by what you hear from Christians, actually read the scriptures that the religion is based off of.

I've come from a Southern Baptist (partly Catholic) home, and spent the majority of my life as a Christian, so I've read the bible more than a handful of times. I won't vote that I've read it in it's entirety because there's just some parts that I purposefully avoided because they put me to sleep even as a Christian, like the ridiculous genealogies. The bible is a large factor in my deconversion, it's just sickening.

You can be an atheist and still admit that the Bible, as a collection, is a literary masterpiece. You don't have to be a theist to appreciate it as a piece of art and monument of culture.