read the bible

[liam]

Being recently possessed of the notion that I should read the bible, I would like to share this with you very much. I think it's a very important video to me and I'd like to just spread it because personally there aren't many videos that inspire me more than this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3rGev6OZ...ure=relmfu

[Minimalist]

Actually reading that piece of shit gets us plenty of new atheists. I wish more xtians would actually read it.

[Brian37]

There isn't one atheist I know that would tell someone not to read a holly book. We do want theists to read their books, BUT without a hand up their back. We want you to see all the fantastic magical claims and all the moral inconsistencies throughout.

Yes read it, but do so as if you had picked it up for the first time and no one had told you a thing about it before.

Genocide, sexism, incest, slavery, not to mention all the poof magic nonsense.

It's head character is an unmovable figure whom you cannot impeach, vote out of office, or question if it does something you don't like. It condones the murder of outsiders who do not kiss his ass. It sets up the rules without your consent and then blames you for the rules it didn't have to set up in the first place.

To this god, we are nothing more than property, pawns, submissive slaves who must obey or be tortured forever. That moral bankruptcy alone, is enough for me to reject such a god claim. But even without, even before you get to word one of that gang manual, the person has swallowed the idea of an invisible non material magical super brain with a magic wand.

[Chuff]

I tried reading it a little while ago and also the koran, I didn't do badly for a while and then wondered what the fuck I was doing and gave up - I've probably read more than most believers though now which is quite amusing considering they supposedly live their lives by it

Neither are exactly an easy read, nor particularly interesting and they have both got waaaaaaay too much praising in them.

Both gods appear to have serious issues and should definitely visit a psychiatrist

[the6dead]

Penn hits the nail on the head.

[Napoléon]

I tried reading the bible myself, but the author didn't have a very nice writing style. I think J.K. Rowling is a better author, and that's saying something.

[Whateverist]

I tried reading the bible myself, but the author didn't have a very nice writing style. I think J.K. Rowling is a better author, and that's saying something.

Agreed. I've poked around in it but never found anything to engage my interest. Hardly a page turner it also lacks clarity, character development or a coherent plot. Not my cup of tea at all.

[liam]

Despite the serious content problems I think I'd like to read the whole thing, if only to point out the serious flaws and mis-justifications. While it might not be the a great book, Sun Tzu's art of war certainly is and it says know thine enemy

[Tempus]

I found it easier to read when I began taking notes as I went along, comparing translations, as well as passages within a single translation. That being said, there's stuff like the family tree(s) in Genesis which is just plain tedious.

[Epimethean]

Despite the serious content problems I think I'd like to read the whole thing, if only to point out the serious flaws and mis-justifications. While it might not be the a great book, Sun Tzu's art of war certainly is and it says know thine enemy

Sun Tzu can be pretty stone boring too.