Pornographic in spots, full of hate/torture/murder & incest, plus a gawd who creates & destroys for no reason whatsoever except "jealousy".....

A doorstop.

The bible to me is a book written by men to control women of how she should live. i would definately not say the bible is 100 percent bad . The bible consist of old and new testament. i find the old testament non-sense since there is hatry towards a woman. but in the new testament, a man named jesus saved magdalene from being stoned to death. i think jesus is the only man from the bible who treat a woman with respect. therefore i respect him . I would not consider that he is alive since he dead 2000 years ago. however i do respect him in conclusion the bible to me is for 90 percent non-sense and 10 percent senseful.

The bible to me is the same as Greek or Roman mythology...

A work of fiction

Stories built with no foundation eventually it will fall as all other religions have that are now know as mythology.

The Gospels are great Literature, Revelations could well be taken as a 1967 LSD trip. Paul's letters could make up the content for a new soap opera. The Song of Solomon beautiful poetry and some excellent action film material from the histories. Technical manuals in Leviticus and some really wild shorts along the way with Noah, Abraham and a freedom fighter that seems to be the star of the whole collection. The mistake is to take it seriously and literally. A rival to the Star Wars tri-triology, complete with heroes, anti-heroes, family secrets and conflicts and ultimately mission with a complicated end story. Similarly with the Mahabharata and Ramayana; epic stories to keep one amused for months, possibly years. Its up there with The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Road To Wigan Pier, Midnight's Children and The Canterbury Tales. As with all literature take from it what resonates and leave the rest. Then come back with more life experience and you are reading a different book. You are now letting the book read you!

The Bible is just a collection of texts, put together over 300 years after Jesus was supposed to have lived. A had full of clergy picked and chose what they wanted in it. And for that matter, which versions of the stories to use. Even after that, various chapters don't agree with each other. God didn't make man. Man made God. Humans invented the concept of God, and cobbled together various stories to fill it out. And stole a bunch of it from the previous religion of Judaism. (From the Christian point of view.)

A flawed history which can be eye-opening about the conditions of the un-educated human mind in the years up to the birth of christ. Thoroughly unreliable in its creation myth, accounts of miracles, and seemingly psychotic prophets.

The Bible is a collection of 66 books, written by men, thousands of years ago, who were not even there!

By design, a tool of control, and like so many tools, most dangerous when poorly used.

It is a useful reference work. It is good to quote at Christians to point out the fallacy of their belief.
I was brought up in a strict Irish catholic household, my folks were always at church, but I can't ever recall them reading scripture. In my experience, Catholics don't read the bible at all, just rely on the B.S from the clergy.

The Goat Herder's Guide to the Galaxy

A place holder on my bookshelf right next to a full concordance of the bible

An ancient book of myth that codified two separate philosophies and dogma that tries to project a single religion but are mutually incompatible.

To me it's a text that's important to western civilization and even contains some wisdom. ("Hope deferred maketh the heart sick." ) I'm not so sure it was meant to be taken literally--maybe the line between the literal and the merely symbolic was less clear in ancient culture!

The line "As you have done it for the least of you, you have done it for me" does mean a lot to me.

Toilet paper....although the crap in it renders this book useless.

The Bible is the Big Book of Hebrew Fairy Tales with the Christian Zombie Jesus Addendum ?

To me the Bible is one of the worst things that ever happened to humanity and the world. Anthropocentricism screwed up everything. Placing humans as the center of God's universe is utter nonsense and consummate arrogance. It was a sad day for the unhuman animals when some goat herder or fisherman wrote that the humans have "dominion" over nature.

Considering our current level of deforestation it's a serious threat to the environment.
It's the Big Book of Contradictory Gibberish.
It's a waste of paper, ink, and time.
It's the opiate of the asses.

It's nowhere near the caliber of Harry Potter. It's poorly written; its plot is disjointed; and the characters are superficial. I don't feel any attachment to them. It's not even as well written as twilight.

A fairy tale that makes a great fire starter

The Bible is often what I quote or refer to when I want to make a point in an argument with a theist.

A collection of ancient stories. Nothing more.

The women setting up my estate sale found a bible in the home my family has been in since my Dad built it in 1956, and gave it to me in a box of other personal items. Turns out it belonged to my Aunt who had briefly lived with us in the 70's. I noted her and her husband's birthdays in the late 1800's, then chucked in into the trash. A few days later I had a cleaning lady work my new place over, and she found it...sure it was in the garbage by mistake. I told her to simply leave it right there (which got me a frown in return)...unless she wanted it. After she left that night it was gone.

When I had briefly thumbed through it (looking for stashed $100 bills) and smelling of mothballs, I wondered how something as simple as thin paper, ink, some gold leaf and leather could be the genesis of so much hate, bias, dysfunction and endless wars over the millennia. It sure as shit isn't the materials...its the flawed individual human mind and its ego thinking it is the only one that can correctly interpret the words within. Common sense tells you that if something causes worldwide chaos and always has, it should be eliminated. Well, I did my small part in getting that nonsense the fuck out of my house. That's how much the bible means to me.

A rather respectable coaster in a pinch.....