Does your religion depend upon you NOT reading the Bible for yourself?

Question

So that those things which indicate it is cruel and perverse can be secrets ... so that you won't be aware of how much stuff your religion has fabricated that has no basis in the book whatsoever?

Answer 1

No it does not.
We HAVE Bible Study classes.

Answer 2

My family is Catholic.... thank God, they don't put a lot of stress on the bible (there's some crazy stuff in there). We just sometime pray, have drunken receptions and wakes without any guilt and every once in awhile confess our sins that can be absolved by a couple of prayers of contrition.... and usually takes no more than 10 minutes! Why would I read the Bible with this set up? That's for suckers.

Answer 3

I want the Christians to respect the Holy Koran as much as they respect the Holy Bible !

Answer 4

you'd like http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com

funny thing about the bible....not even those that believe in it can agree on it..but of course, they KNOW theyre right about it...and that IT is THE book

If I said what I really thought of those people, the y!a staff would delete my answer and give me a violation notice

Answer 5

They skip over the unpalatable bits - which is most of it because it's too "hard" - even if they do read it themselves. Pastor Billy Bob splains it raaght.

Answer 6

my religion doesnt require me to be associated with bible in anyways, i am hindu

Answer 7

The bible is an interesting work of fiction.

Jesus was a street magician...nothing more.

Answer 8

My guess is that you haven't read it yourself. Cherry picking doesn't count.