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I always and still refuse to read it.

So I was a straight a student lots of friends very active never in trouble. When my parents or ppl in generally tried to push the bible. I refused to read it. I still do.
It recently came to my attention that ppl were or re trying to blame my parents for my not reading the bible. They tried a few times but I always refused. After awhile I had reasons based on logic and reason. So try to blaming nurture. But it was me that refused, they tried. I turned it into a waste of time. It's not gonna change. Like I said then I'll say now. How am I expected to have my own opinions/spiritual view of reality if I memorize one perspective on it and exclude any others. Imagine the 6 year old saying that to a priest telling him to read his bible.
How long would you argue with the 6 year old honor student?

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BlueSkyKing · M Best Comment

I was brought up Roman Catholic. Not really strictly but I had the bells a whistles of conformation. When sometimes I did read the Bible, it was mainly the Old Testament stories gave me interest. They have lots that involved battles of people and gods. So did the other mythologies of the Greeks and Norse, both of which I was exposed to. None of this I took as historically accurate.

Doubt was set in my childhood. Especially the concept of limbo. It still took decades to let go.

jehova · 31-35, M

@BlueSkyKing that's pretty close to my experience too.

Adstar · 56-60, M

The Bible is the correct view of God and His will.. Wanting to have your own view is wanting to have a faulty view.. and anyway your the view you develop will be influences by other (Non -You) external influences.. So in the end the view you develop will both be faulty and still not 100% your view..

Obstinately excluding the Bible shuts the door to a wealth of wisdom and insight derived through hundreds of generations.

I would always have a go at reasoning with any 6 year old because i want that 6 year old to have an eternal life with God in His perfect existence..

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jehova · 31-35, M

@Adstar ah ok my bad I thought u said the only one u could find. Further I am not all about rejecting religion u seem to be all about pushing it. So that's also 2 year old behave I'm right ur wrong nothing else can be true. Is this the inquisition? No but still ur are as closed minded as I allegedly am. I went to church for years and gave it a chance I still do every so often sometimes weekly. did u go to anarchistic or atheistic groups to give it a chance at least? I'd be surprised

jehova · 31-35, M

@Adstar I don't reject shit I'm not willing to read inproper poorly written literature I wasn't willing to read Shakespeare either. Arguably for the same reason but I was forced to in school.

jehova · 31-35, M

@Adstar I have two accounts to accelerate discussion. In the name of rationality.

exchrist · 31-35

About 1 time then if again maybe 5 minutes. And in America was I raised to believe in fredom of religion? To lock someone's perspective down to only one religion especially so young does a disservice

Baremine · 70-79, C

You can have your own opinion but that doesn't mean you are right. Before the flood every man did what was right in his own eyes.

jehova · 31-35, M

@Baremine ok the text saying that is too old to be reliable or valid. U do u im not gonna change my mind

Bumbles · 51-55, M

Yikes, where do you live?

exchrist · 31-35

@Bumbles upstate NY I received most of the message in person at church I was in school already had homework toward proper English. Why would I read broken English as additional homework?

LeopoldBloom · M

You can read it as literature. It’s important for that reason alone, like Shakespeare or Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick. Refusing to read it just because of the religious association is silly. My college had a class “The Bible as Literature,” and the professor always shut down any students who tried to make it into Bible “study.”

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SW-User

@exchrist Take a look at the Gnostic Gospels, if you want to look at plagiarism or deviation.

As for style, they were written by a variety of authors, and oral traditions. St Marks gospel is in childish Greek, whereas St John’s is in the most sophisticated.

exchrist · 31-35

@SW-User like you said all plagiarized getting less accurate and more extreme each time

LeopoldBloom · M

@exchrist Shakespeare and the KJV aren't "poor English;" they're Elizabethan and Jacobean English. The language has changed since then. You do have to put forth a little effort to read them. Chaucer is in Middle English, which isn't exactly a foreign language, but you do need a glossary. However, it's worth it as he's actually a very modern writer. Ezra Pound didn't think much of Shakespeare as he was kind of a lowlife, but he had great regard for Chaucer, who was an intellectual and a diplomat.

I assume you haven't learned any foreign languages.

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SW-User

@LeopoldBloom I don’t know Genesis very well. I know it was put together in the Babylonian exile, with the editors trying to explain why we are here. Written at the time when the Earth was considered flat, and the stars hung from a dome. A paradigm alien to us now.
But then again most people read it using the paradigm of Newtonian Physics, with no understanding of even the existence of Quantum Mechanics.

jehova · 31-35, M

@SW-User I thought it was the Karsage Conicals.

LeopoldBloom · M

@jehova Genesis doesn't have anything about a virgin birth. You are correct that the Bible was based on older stories, mixed in with historically-based fiction, poetry, and legal codes.

NativePortlander1970

You were an honor student at six, what did you excell in, coloring within the lines?

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NativePortlander1970

@jehova Bullshit

exchrist · 31-35

@NativePortlander1970 ok

jehova · 31-35, M

@NativePortlander1970 actually in math science and language after thinking about it

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