NationStates Jolt Archive

Doesn't matter if you've read all, as long as you've read most.

(PLEASE WAIT FOR THE POLL!!!!!!!)

haven't read all of Confucious, only bits, and the Book of Mormon puts me to sleep every time i try to read it.

For my "other" response, The Dhammapada.

i OWN a copy of the koran but i find it unreadable

i have several copies of the bible but ive only really read the gospels, i find the rest pretty much unreadable, although i have heard my share read in church

i have several copies of the tao te ching. it IS a much quicker read than the bible.

cant be bothered to read the book of mormon.

ive read ABOUT hiduism/ buddhism but ive never read any of the texts. i think i tried a couple of the famous buddhist <cant recall what they are called> in the past but found them unreadable.

I hate religion. More people have been killed in the name of religion than anything else.

I hate religion. More people have been killed in the name of religion than anything else.


I hate people. More people have been killed in the name of people than anything else. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:


Now that I've fed the trolls.
I've read the Bible (new international version) and a collection of apocryphal writings that didn't make the cut into the official version of the bible a very long ago.

I've also read quotes from the Koran, though I will buy myself one so I can prove people wrong when they say things about it.

You could also say that I've read the Thora as I've read the Old Testament but that's a bit of a stretch because the Thora is one giant run-on word in Hebrew and I am totally not able to read Hebrew.

Jennifer Government, by Max Barry. May the teachings of Hack Nikeism spread over the land in all of its glory!

I've read the Koran (obviously) as well as the Bible and Torah (I have a copy of those for reference).. I would love to read some of Confucious's work..

Oh, I've also read the Satanic (gospels?).. The "commandments" of Satan.. Very interesting indeed.

Run-On Word? There's supposed to be ending's in it...

It'll generally be an oversized period or colon... Ya sure, there's no ending in it?

hmm someone should write a holy book for us atheists

What about Wiccan, read some books and found it mmm interesting...

Sunna, should be mention as it plays a major roll in Islam

Old testament, well its hard to read 6 pages of names sometimes (brother of, sister of who’s father was ...etc etc etc)

More I think is the interpretation what is important, languages have such a dynamic that words change there meaning.... (with no offence!!!!!) Jesus son of God, well what did they wrote, son as we understand it or because of his style of living and his compassion etc so close to God that he was a son of God, and are we not all sons of God....

Just to create a bit of polemic, its good for the brain...

Out of interest, has anyone picked up a religious text (e.g. out of curiosity, read the Quran) and thought "Yeah! This makes sense...ALLAH HU'AKBAR/etc!" and converted?

If so, how did the people around you react?

Asking people if they've read the Bible and asking them if they've read the Torah is redundant: the first five books of the Hebrew Bible is the Torah.

The choices might have been better put:

Hebrew Bible (or, "Old Testament", but this is an unpopular term among Jews)
Christian Bible (or, "New Testament")

Other reflections:
I clicked on Koran because I've read major portions of it, but all piecemeal -- I don't have a sense of how it flows as a work.

I've read quite a few Buddhist sutras in my time. I'm not sure where works like, "The Awakening of Faith" (attributed to Ashvagosha), fit in.

I've muttered Al Qu'ran in Arabic (as in, made the noises, because they're very, very pretty noises, but understood maybe one word in twenty, mostly as an excercise to get the alphabet memorized), and read it in English.
Also have a careful reading of the Old Testament under my belt, a scan of Talmud & NT, a look at a few choice quotes from Baghavadgita, and I've read (and keep a copy in my room) of the Principia Discordia.

Asking people if they've read the Bible and asking them if they've read the Torah is redundant: the first five books of the Hebrew Bible is the Torah.

Although my impression is that there are substantial translation differences between the Jewish and Christian English translations of the Hebrew bible, particularly depending on what version and edition you're using. (The best example is that old "born of a virgin" thing in Isaiah- which actually reads "born of a maiden".)

The choices might have been better put:

Hebrew Bible (or, "Old Testament", but this is an unpopular term among Jews)


Not very surprising, since the implication there is that the Hebrew scriptures are incomplete, outdated or irrelevant.

Another option, and the one I would have preferred, would have been to use "Tanakh", which is the Hebrew term for the "Hebrew Bible"- what Christians call the OT. Since the poll uses the native languages to describe many of the other works (Tao Te Ching, Bhaghavad Gita, etc.), it seems that this would have been appropriate.

Out of curiosity, would you consider ancient myths a form of religious work?
As in the Egyptians, the Greeks, Babylonian, Sumerian, Celts etc...
Also what about Aboriginal myths, Maori myths, Native American...