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Originally Posted by Data
This is the dip**** take on religion.
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My guess is that you are one of the 93% of Christians that have never read the Bible cover to cover without coaching. My problem with religious folk and childhood is that I was told so many things, and when science started to uncover the lies, I decided to read. I read the Book Of Mormon, Pearl of Great Price, and Doctrine and Covenants first, and after being aghast at what bull**** it was, I read the bible, cover to cover. Again, my jaw dropped at what crap it was. After this, I read the Talmud and the Koran, but by this time I knew what I was in for.
If I were to try to convert a religious person to Atheism (and I really don't give a **** if they do or not) I
could offer The God Delusion by Dawkins, or God Is Not Great by Hitchens or something else, but the real hammer would be to challenge them to read whatever text their sect deems sacrosanct. Once a person has read any of them cover to cover (no "bible study" or coaching), there is no sane person that will close the book and say, "Gosh, that really made sense." That's my challenge: read the Koran or the Bible or whatever, and do it without help.
After that, you will want to read Hitchens and Dawkins to calm your anger because you've allowed yourself to be duped for so long.