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why is the atheist obsessed with the Bible

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10-06-2010 9:31 PM 		Reply to: Message 67 by jar
10-06-2010 7:20 PM

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I have found that far too often Christians ideas of "reading the Bible" is from Bible study groups where some SOURCE, some leader says, read this passage and I'll tell you what it means.
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Reading the Bible through turned me away from my church as a pre-teen. Before I left, I talked to the minister, bringing along a list of problems.
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It took me about 5 minutes to see he had never read the Bible through like a book, but instead had this weird schematized view where disparate parts were tied together with baling wire: he used the Bible like an 8-Ball Oracle. He had no thematic understanding or grasp of the narrative arc.
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After listening to some of my complaints, though, he did warn me against the Unitarians.
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10-06-2010 9:53 PM 		Reply to: Message 69 by jar
10-06-2010 9:42 PM

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think that is very often the case. Trying to read the Bible "as a book" is almost certain to turn folk away. It is not "a Book", its a collection, an anthology of anthologies.
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Oh, I understood that part. I'd inherited my older brother's Science Fiction Book Club books and membership, so I knew all about the anthology/omnibus thing. I read it exactly that way, and I heard a hundred voices.
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Yes, as it turned out, those Unitarians were awfully wicked. Bongos. Guitars. Non-white shirts.
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But not as wicked as the Southern Baptist and Church of the Nazarene girls.
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10-06-2010 10:06 PM 		Reply to: Message 70 by subbie
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Ben Rumson: No, but it sure killed my appetite for readin'!
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My appetite for reading survived, freed to concentrate on back issues of Amazing Stories and Ace Doubles: those left my credulity less strained.
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-William James
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