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RE: Do you read the bible?
July 23, 2012 at 3:27 am
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2012 at 3:27 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
I was brought up Catholic,and attended Catholic schools. We were encouraged not to actually read the bible, lest we misinterpret or become confused . (really) Besides, that kind of thing tended to end in in tears as the questioner often received a thick ear for impertinence. Instead, we were encouraged to read say 'Imitation Of Christ' or hagiographies of various saints. I got the distinct impression the Church has never forgiven Gutenberg.
The best way to get a teenage boy to do something is tell him he musn't. So naturally I read the bible cover-to-cover. I remember being bored by the begats,pleasantly surprised by "The Song Of Solomon" and thinking the author of Revelations must have been on acid.
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RE: Do you read the bible?
July 23, 2012 at 6:24 am
(July 23, 2012 at 3:27 am)padraic Wrote: I was brought up Catholic,and attended Catholic schools. We were encouraged not to actually read the bible, lest we misinterpret or become confused . (really) Besides, that kind of thing tended to end in in tears as the questioner often received a thick ear for impertinence. Instead, we were encouraged to read say 'Imitation Of Christ' or hagiographies of various saints. I got the distinct impression the Church has never forgiven Gutenberg.
The best way to get a teenage boy to do something is tell him he musn't. So naturally I read the bible cover-to-cover. I remember being bored by the begats,pleasantly surprised by "The Song Of Solomon" and thinking the author of Revelations must have been on acid.
I do have recollection that for years the catholic church wouldn't allow the bible to be printed in any language other than Latin for fear that the masses would discover what a load of rubbish it is.
People like Godschild prove their fears were baseless.
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RE: Do you read the bible?
July 23, 2012 at 7:12 am
Isn't it funny how atheists know more about the bible than Christians?
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RE: Do you read the bible?
July 23, 2012 at 7:16 am
(July 23, 2012 at 7:12 am)GodlessGirl Wrote: Isn't it funny how atheists know more about the bible than Christians?
What's even funnier is the number of atheists here that were good christians until they actually read the bible.
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RE: Do you read the bible?
July 23, 2012 at 8:11 am
I set out to read the bible when I was a teenager, but after so many "begats" I said, "fuck this" and skipped right to the bloody ending, Revelations. About six months ago I decided I would read the NT, so I could actually engage in the debates here. I realized quite quickly that it was not worth the trouble, and the boredom was not worth the ability to debate its veracity.
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RE: Do you read the bible?
July 23, 2012 at 9:45 am
I have to say I agree Faith No More. When I read the entire thing cover to cover I still considered myself a christian. At the time I was in college and attending an all gay church. I felt that I was missing something from my religious understandings so I went ahead and read the whole damn thing. I still claim that the only reason I made it through was because at the time I thought I believed that bullshit. Then I finally woke up to the truth, tried a few times since then to read it again, never make it past a single book of the damn thing. It's just so boring. Like a terribly written fantasy book.
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RE: Do you read the bible?
July 23, 2012 at 9:47 am
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Nope.
I think I've only ever read at most one page from that awful excuse of literature.
Even JK Rowling is a better author than the dumb fuck/s who wrote that convoluted piece of shyte, and she's bloody crap as well.
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RE: Do you read the bible?
July 23, 2012 at 12:15 pm
(July 23, 2012 at 9:47 am)Napoleon Wrote: Nope.
I think I've only ever read at most one page from that awful excuse of literature.
Even JK Rowling is a better author than the dumb fuck/s who wrote that convoluted piece of shyte, and she's bloody crap as well.
I'm reading it all the way through right now. Don't laugh at me, but I really had trouble following the story of Joseph (and the technicolor dream coat) at the end of Genesis. I forget everyone's name too.
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RE: Do you read the bible?
July 23, 2012 at 12:20 pm
(July 22, 2012 at 10:15 pm)aleialoura Wrote: I have the bible I got at birth. Every child of Catholic parents gets a birth bible.
I didn't get one...
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RE: Do you read the bible?
July 23, 2012 at 12:28 pm
I was given one by my parents but I don't read it. It's a reference I don't find much use for.
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