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How many of you have actually read the Bible?

Have you read the Bible?

  • Yes, I've read the whole thing

  • Yes, I've read parts of it

  • Nope, haven't read it

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I always found it interesting that many, many people who say they don't believe in the Bible have never actually read it, and those who have, I wonder how much they've read. Heck, many people who say they believe it hardly read it!

For those who believe and those who don't: wouldn't it make sense to read the thing and really make your own decisions about it?

Not baiting, flaming etc. Just food for thought. You can't really make a decision about something you know nothing about.
 
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I studied some episodes of the old testament at school (especially jewish stuff in egypt and that sort of stuff), and I read the whole new testament.
I don't believe in it. Jesus has existed, but the bible is a portrayal.
 
I have. When I was younger, I memorized entire chapters in Korean.

It's what turned me into an Atheist, not the memorization part, but after reading it all. I realized it was all bullshit.

Also, Atheists and agnostics tend to know more about religions then believers do.
 
Read everything at least once and many parts several times, as a kid. I don't remember much now except for the general ideas and some of the more popular stories.

<-- not religious, but I went to a Christian elementary and jr high. I also dabbled in church groups and such for a few years before I gave up on religion.
 
Never read The Lord of the Rings myself, but I don't believe that some hobbit had to carry a special ring and destroy it by tossing it into the the fires that forged it.

EDIT: Not that I haven't been exposed to it, and read parts. I went to a Christian school growing up and every Thursday we had to go to church. I hated it. Maybe that's why I'm an atheist now.
 
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Read fewer pages than most kids read in their $XXX college textbooks which then get sold back at sub $25.
 
No.
It was bad enough when the church guy would quote from it when I was a kid. That was more than enough religion for me. It to me, just seemed like a bunch of mysticism and tall tales with no verifiable facts to back any of it up.
 
I have read the entire bible and I am a atheist. I was raised in a religious family and went to church regularly. I took many religious study classes and also took the bible as lit in high school.

Personally the more I read the less I believed.
 
I've read most of it. I went to Catholic school K-8, and 2 years CCD before I grew a spine and said I wasn't going back.
 
Voted for Warren Buffett who read it 3 times and is an atheist.

I'm an atheist and could care less to read it. I could read something that will enlighten me with the same time, so I choose to learn. reading hte bible will only let me more gracefully handle stupid questions like, why are you an atheist.
 
I read a real good chunk of the NT (gospels, every psalm and proverb, all of revelations, a decent amount of the rest. I read nearly 50&#37; of the OT as well.
 
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In the middle of it, want to read it cover to cover. But it's slow going.
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Read the New Testament first. Its shorter and will give you things to look for in the Old Testament. If you read it front to back, you will end up flipping back anyways.
 
Read big chunks of it, but not the whole thing. Never realized there's some magic conversion passage I've been missing.
 
I have read it once as a teen and once as an adult.

As an adult, I was analyzing it and came up much disillusioned by what I felt were inconsistencies. Leading me to figure that when stories are passed along to long before being actually scribed; they become heavily tarnished.

Part may also be the actions of different churches to force the stories to conform with their visions.
 
I read about half-way through, but it was so boring I wanted to stab my eyes out. Read plenty of it in bits and pieces growing up as a Jehovah's Witness. Now that I am an atheist, I have no interest in it whatsoever.
 
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