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09-11-2006, 06:19 PM
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What's your favourite book in the bible?
I've been asked this question by people who didn't realise I was an atheist.
When I was a teenager at school, some christian came around giving out new testaments (why just that?) and I had a look at mine. Didn't read the gospels much, or the rest, thinking it was boring, but I loved Revelation. It was so... imaginative, like science fiction. I mean all this weird stuff in it about the end of the world. Of course I knew it wasn't real. But it was an entertaining read. |
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09-11-2006, 08:19 PM
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2 Samuel
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09-11-2006, 08:49 PM
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Song of Solomon.
It's a book of erotic poetry. It doesn't mention god once. It doesn't make any contentious historical claims or vague prophecies. What's not to like? |
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09-11-2006, 10:58 PM
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Job for its honesty, Ecclesiastes for its wisdom (and for reminding me of my grandmother) and Song of Songs for its poetry.
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09-11-2006, 11:56 PM
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Genesis, for its sweeping (and fascinating) mythological stories.
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09-12-2006, 12:15 AM
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Proverbs.
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09-12-2006, 07:59 AM
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Psalms (although I am tempted to say Revelation because it is such a trip, the author was high on something for sure).
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09-12-2006, 09:42 AM
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Second Leviticus
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09-12-2006, 10:03 AM
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Probably Jeremiah for the personal and psychological detail it gives to our knowledge of what was otherwise the fall of just another Iron Age petty kingdom.
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09-12-2006, 10:17 AM
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Ecclesiastes....
"Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. Utterly meaningless! All of it is meaningless!" dude has a point.... |
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