How many Athiest have actually...read the Bible ? (POLL)

Oh,I understand and agree completely with your point,what I was trying to say was that it would have felt hypocritical TO ME to make that decision without reading The Bible...I'm sure it wouldn't feel that way to others.DaveMcSavage

[QUOTE="DaveMcSavage"]Oh,I understand and agree completely with your point,what I was trying to say was that it would have felt hypocritical TO ME to make that decision without reading The Bible...I'm sure it wouldn't feel that way to others.Decessus

I haven't read it cover to cover, but I have read bits of it for various reasons.

I'm not convinced by your argument though. I may not be completetly familiar with the Bible, but I did go to church and Sunday school a lot when I was younger, and a Christian youth club when I was a bit older. And nothing there convinced me that God exists. So why would reading the whole Bible be any different?

And I read your blog... I appreciate that you were ranting, but I found it badly structured, and mildly offensive. Atheist =/= pot smoker.

I would put money on there being a lot of Christians that have not read the Bible...

And why do atheists have to read the Bible if they are atheists anyways?
foxhound_fox

I haven't read it cover to cover, but I have read bits of it for various reasons.

I'm not convinced by your argument though. I may not be completetly familiar with the Bible, but I did go to church and Sunday school a lot when I was younger, and a Christian youth club when I was a bit older. And nothing there convinced me that God exists. So why would reading the whole Bible be any different?

And I read your blog... I appreciate that you were ranting, but I found it badly structured, and mildly offensive. Atheist =/= pot smoker.

Snomel

Some one hasn't read the entirety of the thread...Lds_Ricky

I had to read it at school when we were studying religion, i really liked the part where it says my father can sell my sister to slavery and if she behaves badly we can punish her by throwing stones at her! :)FireXero

[QUOTE="Lds_Ricky"]Some one hasn't read the entirety of the thread...foxhound_fox

I'm an atheist and I'm in the process of reading the bible.  I'm up to the Book of Jeremiah right now.

I attended a Presbyterian school from 2nd to 6th grade and from grades 3-6 we had a Bible class where we read the whole thing. However, I'm not sure why you'd think that reading the Bible would be compelling to someone who doesn't have religious faith since, lacking that, it's just a book.xaos

I won't read it either. If heaven and hell exsist I'll greet the devil with my right hand.
tequilasunriser

im a christain and read the bible every nightyamum2

[QUOTE="tequilasunriser"]I won't read it either. If heaven and hell exsist I'll greet the devil with my right hand.
Gamezilla57

[QUOTE="Gamezilla57"][QUOTE="tequilasunriser"]I won't read it either. If heaven and hell exsist I'll greet the devil with my right hand.
-Karayan-

[QUOTE="-Karayan-"][QUOTE="Gamezilla57"][QUOTE="tequilasunriser"]I won't read it either. If heaven and hell exsist I'll greet the devil with my right hand.
tomxizor

[QUOTE="Lds_Ricky"][QUOTE="tequilasunriser"]I won't read it eaither. If heaven and hell exsist I'll greet the devil with my right hand.
tequilasunriser

For those of you that are "Athiest" have you actually attempted at reading the Bible.... :?

Yes or No answer, I just want to see what the majority of the answers are here on GS, and I don't want any Novels...

Lds_Ricky

  Won't read the Bible ever..  It can't be taken literally, there is numerous fundamental argumetns form numerous sects on what meanings of certain passages are, and whether its real or a metaphor..   And people claim its a great read, sure but there are FAR better "Art of War" Comes to mind from Sun Tzu..  That bieng said the Bible is not credible what so ever.. It has been translated and rewritten hundreds if not thousands of times..  Every translation has made the overall meaning of the bible change fundamnetally.. Due to the fact many languages have words that have a completely different utter meaning when compared to other languages.. Some languages don't even have words that exists when compared to other languages.. Lets not forget that mankind is no beacon of light and I assure anyone that authors have changed the bible subtlely for their own bias through out history..  There is NUMEROUS amounts of proof from this such as the fact that it mentions that the world is flat with four corners.. If this were truely the word of god why would he/she put such misinformation in a book that is suppose to be a beacon of truth?

   Even the 10 commandments them selves are victims of this..  Read the adultry one very carefully, notice that it specifically speaks to MALES and not females.. Because Females at the time were considered PROPERTY and would be stoned to death if they were caught doing adultry... 

   So in the end IMO its not even that great of a book that conveys that great of a message.. There are much more philosophical superior books out there from the writings of Sun Tzu, Aristotole, Thomas Hobbes etc etc...

[QUOTE="tequilasunriser"][QUOTE="Lds_Ricky"][QUOTE="tequilasunriser"]I won't read it eaither. If heaven and hell exsist I'll greet the devil with my right hand.
Gamezilla57

A few misconceptions that some Atheists make:

1.) Christians are stupid

2.) You shouldn't have to read the Bible in order to argue the existence of God

3.) Christians are a bunch of right-wing ultra conservative nut-jobs.

No, no and no. First of all, there are and have been many intelligent Christian people throughout history. C.S. Lewis anyone? Second, saying you shouldn't have to read the Bible to argue the idea of God is like saying you don't have to read Shakespeare's work to write a thesis on the influence of Shakespeare's literature. It makes you sound ignorant. Third, no not all Bible-believing Christians are over-judgemental people that blow up abortion clinics and shove the Bible down people's throats.

So, just open your minds for a second and ponder this question: Before Paul of Tarsus was a Christian he was one of the highest ranking priests in the Jewish religion. He brutally murdered Christians because he did not understand what they believed and he didn't like it. Amazingly, through a supernatural experience his life was completely changed and he became a fierce defender of Christianity and helped propel it into what it is today. Here is a historical figure who literally did a complete 180 and ended up being persecuted as a Christian himself. If there is no God than how did this REAL historical figure go from being a murderer of Christians to becoming one? What motivated him to do so? I don't think Paul had some kind of schizophrenic breakdown or any other physical change. It was a change of heart that could only be instigated by an outside force.

A few misconceptions that some Atheists make:

1.) Christians are stupid

2.) You shouldn't have to read the Bible in order to argue the existence of God

3.) Christians are a bunch of right-wing ultra conservative nut-jobs.

mynameisjosh657

A few misconceptions that some Atheists make:

1.) Christians are stupid

2.) You shouldn't have to read the Bible in order to argue the existence of God

3.) Christians are a bunch of right-wing ultra conservative nut-jobs.

No, no and no. First of all, there are and have been many intelligent Christian people throughout history. C.S. Lewis anyone? Second, saying you shouldn't have to read the Bible to argue the idea of God is like saying you don't have to read Shakespeare's work to write a thesis on the influence of Shakespeare's literature. It makes you sound ignorant. Third, no not all Bible-believing Christians are over-judgemental people that blow up abortion clinics and shove the Bible down people's throats.

So, just open your minds for a second and ponder this question: Before Paul of Tarsus was a Christian he was one of the highest ranking priests in the Jewish religion. He brutally murdered Christians because he did not understand what they believed and he didn't like it. Amazingly, through a supernatural experience his life was completely changed and he became a fierce defender of Christianity and helped propel it into what it is today. Here is a historical figure who literally did a complete 180 and ended up being persecuted as a Christian himself. If there is no God than how did this REAL historical figure go from being a murderer of Christians to becoming one? What motivated him to do so? I don't think Paul had some kind of schizophrenic breakdown or any other physical change. It was a change of heart that could only be instigated by an outside force.

mynameisjosh657

     Cherry picking and misinformation FTW!

1.) Christians are stupid

--It sure seems that way when they believe the earth is only seven thousand years old when eveyr form of science from physics, geology, paleotology, etc says other wise.  Infact some fools think dinosaurs WALKED with man and tried to justifiy it through the verse of the Bible.

2.) You shouldn't have to read the Bible in order to argue the existence of God

---- Pure BS this is like me saying you do not understand god because my book the Quran is correct.. This is making the assumption that the Bible is 100% correct and IT ISN'T..  There ar enumerous foresights, I guess you think Noahs Arc was posisble, or at one time the earth really was flat sense the Bible said so?  Or what about int he early transitions that said the Earth was the center of the universe.

3.) Christians are a bunch of right-wing ultra conservative nut-jobs.

      No they arn't, but the arrogant fools like you ARE.  People who some how think their beliefs are above every one elses, yet will argue and betray Jesus's teachings just to prove that their faith is some how correct..  And no Christians arn't right wing Ultra conservative Nut jobs, BUT THEY HAVE hi-jacked the right wing.. In the end they are the source for quite a few of our bigotry and sexism in the US, numerous upon numerous evangelicals have been recorded saying many unbelievable statements.

[QUOTE="mynameisjosh657"]

A few misconceptions that some Atheists make:

1.) Christians are stupid

2.) You shouldn't have to read the Bible in order to argue the existence of God

3.) Christians are a bunch of right-wing ultra conservative nut-jobs.

-Karayan-

Well then you haven't been around enough people. There are TONS of people who think Christians are idiot ultra-conservatives. To say that there is NO ONE that thinks this is an overgeneralization.