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read the title, duh.

edit: if you decide to post, it'd be sweet to say whether you are American or not... i want to see particularly the difference between american and european attitudes towards the bible.


i haven't read it except when made to at primary school. why? neither i nor my (immediate) family are religious in any way. this is partly why i try to stay out of religious threads round here - i have no educated basis for arguement.

I can't read!!!

I've read most of it by dipping in and out occassionally, I once tried to read it all from start to finish but I only managed to get as far as Job before - Yawn - I got bored with it.

i read some and I didnt read some. Mostly It was so fkn boring except for the death and destruction parts but it wasnt enough to make up for the other crap. Oh the Jesus stuff was alright though. I payed most attention to that even though I never really trusted it to be a real account of anything. I'm not saying I don't believe Jesus really existed. It could very well be possible and if he did I love what he said and did. But I don't trust that all the revisions are true to the original text, though I am sure that the gist of a some ot of the stuff did come thru.

Plus I find that it's much easier to understand stuff written by spiritual guides of our time.

Like Eckart Tolle - he rules.

<--- American

I was raised catholic and went through a very religous phase. I read most of the OT, and all four gospels. These contributed to me turning away from Christianity.

Read a few bits. Mainly revelations, that's the most interesting :P
I just couldnt stand reading the whole thing, the prospect just seems tedious to me.

I voted other for this because I don't agree with the Bible + I've read it...........I don't see how I could not agree with it any other way, if I hadn't read it.there are too few choices on that poll, man!

just to say, I'm English [just read your first post properly :P]

I've read a lot of the Torah and a bit of Isiah. No New Testament for me :D

I read the bible one night in order to escape Will and Grace.

It is clearly a magnificent book for being the first ancient text to describe the effects of drugs what with bearded men flying and healed lepors.

I haven't read the Bible because none of my family is religious and in my dabbling I've never been inclined to check out Christianity - but I would like to someday. Once at a friend's house I read the first couple pages and it looked like it would be a fun read. I doubt I will ever see it as holy scripture but it's one of those cultural keystones that I really ought to know, and besides, as the basis for a whole religion it has to contain a lot of wise philosophy. It seems like, in my life, it would play a similar role to Illusions by Richard Bach.

Oh yes, and for demographic purposes I am an almost-15 American female.

Illusions wasnt all that bad

i havent read all of it, its too tedious. id recommend to anyone that they get one of those bibles that have the words of jesus highlighted in red. it cuts the reading way down and can profoundly affect your understanding of christianity.

Yes, I have read it. No, I am not Christian. By the way, I am Canadian.

I think most people who believe in the Bible have not read it. It would take a rare amount of confidence and intelligence to read the whole thing and still believe it is the inspired word of God. Most would simply take it on faith that what the preacher says is in the Bible actually is.

read the title, duh.

edit: if you decide to post, it'd be sweet to say whether you are American or not... i want to see particularly the difference between american and european attitudes towards the bible.


i haven't read it except when made to at primary school. why? neither i nor my (immediate) family are religious in any way. this is partly why i try to stay out of religious threads round here - i have no educated basis for arguement.

I'm Icelandic and I haven't read the bible. I've glimpsed at some parts of the new testament out of curiosity and boredom and found it about as exciting and divine as my tax-report.

i havent read all of it, its too tedious. id recommend to anyone that they get one of those bibles that have the words of jesus highlighted in red. it cuts the reading way down and can profoundly affect your understanding of christianity.
You realize if you were only supposed to read what Jesus said that's all the Bible would contain right?

I can't read Hebrew or Greek, nor do I have the time to translate it, so it's not really possible for me to read it.

Well I read parts of it, but when I read fiction I prefer that it has more of a coherent plot and be at least slightly plausable. :D

English. I read a children's bible when I was younger. I went through this phase of trying to be Christian but I guess I simply didn't have enough faith. Doubt I shall ever read The Bible, don't feel a particurlar need to,

I started to read it when I was in highschool, but got bored quickly. I might pick it up again one day. Also, the only reason I was reading it at all, was just to know what it said. I'm agnostic and I've been that way, since before I knew what agnostic is.

I was raised catholic and went through a very religous phase. I read most of the OT, and all four gospels. These contributed to me turning away from Christianity.

I would say that Catholicism is the issue that would cause that, rather than the holy scripture of any religion.

From my personal experience, I had to read the New Testament for confirmation. It didn't have any real effect on me. Any interest that I have in Christianity is self-motivational.

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Snackwell

I hate Christianity, well the perverted form that exists, anyway. Therefore, I had to vote for other because I have read most of it and I despise it because of the attached religion. That said however, I also think Westerners should read it, particularly because of its influence on many authors. Dante, for example, is so much better and understandable if you have some knowledge of the Bible and Greek/Roman mythology and poetry.

American

I'm a Christian and I read my Bible on a regular basis. I've read almost the entire thing but it's taken me years to do so as I only read a chapter every day or so. I figure there's no hurry to read it all. I do believe it's the word of God, although I don't think everything in there is pertinent today.

I'm a 21 year old American. And just in case you're curious, I'm not super-conservative.