Re how many atheists have read the Bible?

Question

I am honestly interested in how many Christians have read the Bible.

Devon how utterly closeminded and ignorant.

I asked this question of Christians because i just answered the same question posted to atheists. Sorry if it didnt make sense

Remember lying is against your Religion.

Answer 1

I read the Bible cover-to-cover twice, during the 1970's. It did nothing but confirm my suspicions that religious people actually don't know how to think properly.

Religious people of the past and present are invaribly Solipsists, who imagine their own subjective mental experiences form the basis of reality. Just as the ancients believed the Earth was the center of the universe, so too did they believe that their subjective mental experiences were real and that the physical realm was merely an illusion created by the human mind. It is this deeply fundamental error which ultimately caused the Dark Ages, by encouraging people to imagine their dreams and hallucinations were actually real. The error wasn't discovered until 1590, when Galileo discovered most of Aristotle's "wisdom" could be easily disproved with simple physical experiments.

Once I realized that virtually all believers are Solipsists, I understood why the Bible seems so strange and incomprehensible to scientific thinkers who know that only the physical realm objectively exists. Just as I now know that the Earth revolves around the Sun, so too do I know that the physical realm is real and my subjective mental experiences are an illusion created by my living brain. I shall never again waste my time studying the Bible, because I now understand that the forty-odd different men who authored it were all Solipsists who didn't have a prayer of ever writing anything that was actually objectively true. The Bible contains nothing worthwhile for modern people who now know that only the physical is actually real and that their subjective thoughts are merely clever illusions created by their living brains.

Put me in the catagory of people who relentlessly studied the Bible, only to eventually discover it is worse than totally worthless. Biblical scholarship is dangerous to mental health because it encourages people to accept a Solipsistic worldview and thus to accept the delusion that their own mental experiences are objectively real.

Answer 2

good question.....as a person who came froma strict Christian Greek Orthodox religion background i didnt read the bible until I was 19. thats when I realized it was not for me. and I know for fact I wasnt the only one who hadnt read it, and im assuming other disciplines have the same scenario. The reason i believe is many people are just born into becoming Christians/Muslims/Jews and instead of reading the "Holly" books, they are told by their parents/ priests/ imams ..........
so, its not surprising to realize that many devout religous folks havn't read their respective books.
interesting huh?

Answer 3

I am not an atheist or a christian, but I was christian many years ago and I have read all of the bible, which is probably why I'm no longer christian!

Answer 4

I, for one, have read through the entire Bible more than once, and the New Testament many times. (Reading only 10 chapters a day in the New Testament, you can read it through in a month!)

The more I read it, the more I'm convinced that God is behind the scenes operating to bring about His ultimate purpse - to bring as many people as possible to heaven, but only those who want to go and are willing to submit to His Authority.

I mean, after all, why would anyone want to go to heaven if they don't want God's rule in their life in the first place? So God won't force anybody to go to heaven, "kicking and screaming", because that would defeat the purpose and prove that satan was right all along!

Answer 5

I am almost willing to bet that more atheists have read the Bible straight through than Christians. In my experience, Christians seem more interested in particular verses that support their point of view than actually researching the context in which the verse was written and intended.

Answer 6

I read the Bible. It's sort of a cultural touchstone, so by not reading it all I'd be doing is ensuring that I often don't understand what people are talking about.

Anyway, you should evaluate something before you decide it's rubbish. Otherwise your opinion is baseless.

Answer 7

I'm not atheists but nor am I christian but I have read the bible

Answer 8

Trust me, I've asked this question before here.. and very few christians have read the bible cover to cover.. in fact, in this forum, you'll find more NON-christians have read it.

Answer 9

Millions. Have you noticed that the God in the Old Testament is wrathful and the God in the New Testament is loving? And religion doesn't want to talk about it.

Answer 10

I used to hate reading the Bible as a Christian. It always contradicted what I wanted to believe.

Now I'm more interested in it than ever before.