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How many of you have read the bible completely?

RizzoJenkins 4 Apr 8
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I have read the NIV bible, the Quran and the Satanic Bible. The Satanic Bible is by far the most moral of the three.

I know passages in the Quran. But could never go through it completely. Too scary. And yes, the satantic bible is the most moral. They actually tell you Not to rape.

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You mean including the parts that have been left out like the Book of Mary?

or the gospel of judas [en.wikipedia.org]

Yes, the books that some pope decided were't orthodoxy enough.

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Great question. I have not. My father was an Atheist, raised in Greek Orthodoxy. He told his kids 'why would you waste your time reading that shit? there's so many other books out there and they're better written'.

Well said, Dad!

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Tried a couple of times and failed.

It is a tough read.

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A few times during the 2.5 years spent in a fundamentalist cult from 19-21.

Helga Level 4 Apr 8, 2018
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A couple of times through. One round specifically to see if I could spot a phophesy, all these prophesies jesus was supposed to fulfill, could one discern a phophesy from any of the other noise. I did not spot a single one. Oh sure cherry pick, a pharse about born in the city of david, but it is shuffled in with a lot of other stuff, I saw no indication that that pharse was talking about a messiah, or even the future. My father is going through it right now, I asked him to pay attention and see if he can spot any time in the old testament where the jew is instructed to be kind, loving or even civil to his neighbor. Jesus was admonishing them for not being loving toward one another, but their book never suggests they should.

Also read through the book of morman a couple of times. Spoiler alert, the mormans follow their book about as religiously as the evangelicals follow theirs.

When we moved to Vegas when I was 11, our neighbours gave us a Book of Mormon. I tried to read it couple times than...but didn't make sense. And I have perused though it times over the year. Just too weird.

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Not a single verse.... Why would I want to do that??

LOL

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Heavens no, I got shit to do. But, as soon as they make it into a movie, I'm on it 😉

If you want to debunk it - READ IT. My late grandfather was a Rabbi of note. He understood even when I was in my early teens that I am an atheist. He challenged me to study religion simply for the sake of knowing what I am against. In his words - an ignorant agnostic is simply ignorant. His lack of knowledge - the Greek meaning of agnostic - is simply ignorance rather than doubt.

The old testament makes a bit more sense than the new. I would expect it to be the other way around as I expect knowledge to increase rather than decrease, but religion does its best to squash knowledge

Don't be a religious atheist or a devout atheist without knowledge of the other side..

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One doesn't have to read a book cover to cover to know it's complete bullshit.

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I read it on a dare once. I found it arrogant and boring. I also read the Bhagavad Gita, and the quoran. I found the story about Krishna the most interesting. But still very fictional. They are just books. ☹️

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Now why would I do a damn-fool thing like that? Seriously - I have read a lot of it, back when I was doing the church thing 30 years ago, and also in college next to other texts, comparing stories. I never wanted to read the whole thing! I got enough to know not to!

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I have..many times. When I finally began reading the Bible in the original Greek and Hebrew, I realized that most of what I'd been taught in church wasn't even in the original version.

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Back when I was 24 I did a read the bible in a year. Stopped half way through when I found that certain parts were left out. Read the deleted parts and called myself an atheist.

BillF Level 7 Apr 8, 2018
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By the age of 15, I had read it from cover to cover 3 times.

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I have read it from beginning to end three times.

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In the words of a recent YouTube video gone viral: "Ain't nobody got time for that!"

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I have read the Bible the koran the Book of Mormon part of the Vedas didn’t get to the Upanishad I read a little bit of the Tanaka and read quite a lot of the writing of the Baha’i. Been thinking about looking at the Tipitaka. But they are all bullshit. .

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No, I love to read, but I have never felt the need to read the bible.

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Reading the bible took me from "an atheist" to "holy shit I am such a fucking atheist you don't even know."

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No chance

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Many many times....

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I have read it in many different forms. The Christian Bible and the Eastern Orthodox Bible as well as the Catholic Bible. They are all differing books. Same idea but the see it differently.

Iggie Level 3 Apr 9, 2018
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Serveral times. Spoiler alert... "it wasn't the devil, it was God."

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3 times start to finish, many extracts dozens of times.

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I sure have.

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