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Originally Posted by Severian
Ok, ok. whoah.... whoah.
Stephen King is one thing. His writing is so simplistic that it's pretty easy to pound through one of his longer books in a few days. I've read plenty of more thematically and linguistically dense books — longer ones, too — just in the "epic fantasy" subgenre. Simple shit though, still.
But The Bible?! Really? You've read The Bible "several times?" First of all... are you lying? If not, then... WHY have you done that?
I'll freely admit to never having read The Bible from cover to cover. And I likely never will. I've read a pretty good portion of it, but only in brief chunks at really weird/desperately boring times in my life.
Unless you're a pastor or a priest, or a professor of classics or some shit with a PhD in religious philosophy, what reason could you possibly have for reading THE BIBLE several times?
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The Bible is the founding document for the Moral world that most of us live in. I read the Bible as a kid in sunday school. my father was an Episcopal Priest and I was an acolyte until age 17.
I re-read the Bible again in University, including the standard aprocrypha, around age 20, for a very cool class called the History of the Bible. It was awesome class. The old Rabbi that taught it explained how, as far as the writers of the old testament were concerned, god created eve to keep adam from fucking the vaginas and assholes of the warm animals he had dominion over.
I re-re-read the Bible again around age 37 or so, after reading the Old Testament volume of Isaac Asimov's Guide to The Bible. (that book is two volumes, Old Testament Guide around 1300 pgs, and the New testament volume about 1400 pages)
why is that so hard to believe?
Most religious people read the Bible constantly, their whole life, and may read and re-read it dozens of times.
I do not believe in anything though, but I do appreciate the wisdom found in many religious texts.