Just guessing the percentages of course.
2006-07-21 12:39:11 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The King James Bible is the best tool for creating an atheist that I've ever seen. And with that in mind, I would say that the majority of "true" atheists have read it.
In fact, I will go so far as to say this.... Anyone claiming to be an atheist, who has not read the Bible, does not garner a lot of respect from me. It doesn't make good sense to me to not look into all avenues before making a judgement on something. But I have yet to meet a "true" atheist that has not read the bible.
I've met plenty of "Christians", however, that have never opened it, outside of the times their pastor told them to, in church.
2006-07-21 21:53:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think Atheists do, because they have the better arguments. Also, they need to find rebuttals and everything, for those Christians who try to force their religion on them. I also believe that Christians have not read the Bible enough to understand it. Atheists read it, and understand it... which is why they choose not to believe it. It makes no sense to. If a Christian ever fully read the bible, there probably would be a lot less Christians. The only Christians there would be, would be the less sane people. The ones with no common sense. Christians, also, do not practice so often what they claim to believe in. Therefore, since Atheists have the biggest percentage practicing their beliefs and rebutting logically the Bible, more Atheists have read the entire Bible than Christians.
2006-07-23 16:42:05 · answer #2 · answered by ♥-=-TLCNJ19-=-♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm betting that more atheists have read it than theists. The theists I have met tend to read the Bible in small bits and pieces and avoid the really embarrassing places. Even if they have 'read' the whole thing, they have done so in such small and disconnected pieces that there is no way they could understand what it actually says. On the other hand, atheists realize that one of the best ways to meet the challenges of theism in society is to have read the Bible, understand the societies in it, and understand how it was assembled. I also think reading the Bible is one of the best ways to make someone an atheist. Anyone who can read Leviticus and not find the God described there as evil is really bad crazy.
2006-07-21 13:31:30 · answer #3 · answered by mathematician 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should have asked if we were atheist or christian and if we had read the Bible all the way through then determined the percentage from the answers you got. You are just getting pure opinion now from both sides, and probably a biased one at that.
2006-07-21 12:50:55 · answer #4 · answered by 1big teddy graham 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know...thats a tough one...because an atheist could have read it and that is why they are atheist is because they don't believe what is in the Bible...but I use to consider myself a Christian (I still believe in God just don't really have a name for my religion anymore) and most of everyone else that I know that consider themselves a Christian have never read the entire Bible. So I don't know I guess I would venture to say 40% 60%
2006-07-21 12:43:01 · answer #5 · answered by Crystal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I was in a christian school for 12 years so it was obligatory for me to cover almost the entire bible but we didn't read every chapter and verse, the bible is too long. We covered almost all the important chapters and verses from the testaments.
I haven't read the Bible much since I graduated higschool. I should though.
dont' ask an atheist such questions they are antisocials when it comes to really interact with christians, how are they suppose to know?
2006-07-21 12:43:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say atheist,because by the looks of some of these answers from people that call themselves Christians,I know they don't read the bible,they say what the preacher says.
2006-07-21 12:48:41 · answer #7 · answered by jackiedj8952 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i did not even very own a Bible on the Day of my Salvation... and it have been an extremely long term as a results of fact that I had study any notice in one... One want on no account have study one notice in any Bible to acquire God's loose, and eternal, present of Salvation..... all you will possibly desire to do is come to God in the way He prescribes..... and any o ne of the single real Church can inform you the way.... without even a single quote from The Bible... although the Salvation Message is, of path, in the Bible... it fairly is preserved in the hearts of those of the real Church.
2016-11-02 12:11:00 · answer #8 · answered by awad 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why ask about just Christians and Atheists?
Also, you seem to have even more free time on your hands than even I do.
I get you are having a bit of fun, but its just as fun trying to figure out your goal with these exercises.
2006-07-21 12:50:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. My guess Atheist---don't really have an idea. Christians---very small percentage. Very small.
2006-07-21 12:44:38 · answer #10 · answered by rangedog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋