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RE: Have you read the good book?
February 28, 2017 at 6:44 am
I've read bits and parts, but I skipped around. That genealogy nonsense is too mind numbing, and also knowing most of the story already made it hard to stay interested.
Kind of makes you wonder about those people who have read scriptures so many times they have it memorized front to back. That can't be good for you.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:
"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."
For context, this is the previous verse:
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RE: Have you read the good book?
February 28, 2017 at 9:34 am
Never read old and new testament cover to cover.
However have read NT cover to cover a few times, and studied the rest in segments in detail.
I've read the book of psalms but don't really get/cant apply most of it. There is supplementary work that describes each psalm, when it was written by whom and what purposed it served I the community which was awesome..
The genealogies are.. brutal I've never gotten through all of them.. I know the prayer of Jebez is buried in with them and at that time when the book came out about jabez I tried to read them through but find my mind would wander to other things.
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RE: Have you read the good book?
February 28, 2017 at 10:01 am
If this thread prompts anyone to read the Bible to find out about Christianity, the place to start is the Gospel of John and then Romans and the other epistles of Paul. Opening the Bible and starting on the first page will not get you to Christianity until long after you have given up.
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RE: Have you read the good book?
February 28, 2017 at 10:50 am
Stimbo Wrote:I've read it, though not in a single sitting. A more sickeningly tedious and tediously sickening pile of putridity I've yet to endure.
I still sometimes flick through it to see if I'm allowed to kill people.
Try the Book of Mormon....
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RE: Have you read the good book?
February 28, 2017 at 11:04 am
I'm a two times person, front to back. And it happened long into my atheism when one of my ex's got trapped by fundies (she is still there and I'm satan).
This was pre-puter days and I felt that I needed to be able to provide some elegant retorts to the mindless hoard.
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RE: Have you read the good book?
February 28, 2017 at 11:09 am
PETE_ROSE Wrote:Minimalist Wrote:I read the Skeptics Annotated Bible - except for the relentless genealogies which I skipped over. Sick shit. Takes a real primitive mind to write crap like that and a real dumbass to believe any of it.
Primitive mind? Min have you read Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Proverbs, or Hebrews from the NT? Very eloquently written.
Yes, they are quite a change of pace from the rest of the Bible. The S.A.B. does tend to focus on pointing out the contradictions and moral quandaries, not the best way to read it the first time if you want to appreciate it as literature, IMHO. Like reading too many reviews beforehand can spoil a movie. There are plenty of examples of jaw-dropping barbarity in the Bible, but it's not through-and-through.
Fun fact: The Song of Solomon/Song of Songs does not mention God once.
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RE: Have you read the good book?
February 28, 2017 at 11:17 am
(February 28, 2017 at 11:09 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: PETE_ROSE Wrote:Primitive mind? Min have you read Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Proverbs, or Hebrews from the NT? Very eloquently written.
Yes, they are quite a change of pace from the rest of the Bible. The S.A.B. does tend to focus on pointing out the contradictions and moral quandaries, not the best way to read it the first time if you want to appreciate it as literature, IMHO. Like reading too many reviews beforehand can spoil a movie. There are plenty of examples of jaw-dropping barbarity in the Bible, but it's not through-and-through.
Fun fact: The Song of Solomon/Song of Songs does not mention God once.
Ya got to read between the lines. He was singing about his penis and their exploits. If that's not a god I don't know what one is.
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RE: Have you read the good book?
March 2, 2017 at 10:42 pm
I don't think I've read every single verse but I've probably read at least 75% of the Bible growing up in my fundie family. Had to do a lot of verse memorization too. And we used the old King James Bible and that shit ain't easy to read.
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RE: Have you read the good book?
March 4, 2017 at 11:42 am
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(February 27, 2017 at 8:40 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: In the other thread on reading common atheist literature, someone mentioned that they'd read the bible twice. I personally haven't read the bible and I was wondering how many others were like me and hadn't read the bible.
So the question is simple. Have you read the bible?
i have read the bible i understand it well. reading the bible in itself would not be something you could understand straight away. it takes asking god to help you in meditation. god is easy to understand i learned at church to visualize the passages in the bible which helps understand it clearer. you dont have to do that of course, but its a good book to read. you can learn about life and people and the devil and god reading the bible. it also gives you to key to salvation.
(February 28, 2017 at 1:15 am)Minimalist Wrote: Primitive shitwits. Deal with it, lad.
Shitty philosophy and even shittier poetry.
its obvious you havent understood the meaning of the passages in the bible.
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RE: Have you read the good book?
March 4, 2017 at 11:47 am
No. It's obvious that I have, dumbass.
Tell me how wonderful your fucking god is.
Quote: Deuteronomy 7King James Version (KJV)
7 When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
2 And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
Murderous prick.
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