Has anyone seen this book? (believe, Jesus, atheist, bible)
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The Good Book consciously takes its design and presentation from the Bible, in the beauty of its language and its arrangement into short chapters and verses, offering to the nonreligious seeker all the wisdom, insight, solace, inspiration, and perspective of various secular humanist traditions. Organized in twelve main sections—Genesis, Histories, Wisdom, The Sages, Parables, Consolations, Lamentations, Proverbs, Songs, Epistles, Acts, and The Good Book opens with meditations on the origin and progress of the world and human life in it, then devotes attention to the question of how life should be lived, how we relate to one another, and how vicissitudes are to be faced and joys appreciated. Inspired by the work of Herodotus and Lucretius, Confucius and Mencius, Seneca and Cicero, Montaigne, Bacon, and so many others, The Good Book is a publishing event and a literary tour de force.
Somehow, as an atheist, I don't really think I need a Bible, but I wondered what other people here thought of this idea.
Somehow, as an atheist, I don't really think I need a Bible, but I wondered what other people here thought of this idea.
I am not an atheist but I do believe in God BUT not that the Bible is of divine inspiration. I do believe it contains great stories and principles. I does show how humans are, the good and the bad. I will look into this humanist Bible. I believe Jefferson was a deist. He did have a Bible where he had Jesus words highlighted and the miracles and I believe Pauls letters out of it. He felt Jesus was a great philosopher that did cover great moral principles. I tend to be in line with him, take care.
When I first heard of this, my initial thought was that someone is going to make a lot of money from it. I don't think most atheists need a book to live their lives by.
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