Penn Gillette gets it

[Arcane]

Originally Posted by kdbrich

I appreciated the sincerity and kind words from Gillette...but I wonder how many people who reject it actually understand what the Bible actually says, and what it is.

Some of us who do reject the bible, it isn't because we are ignorant of what's in it, but we reject it's credibility to begin with. It's not rejecting God's word necessarily (in spite of what some passages might declare), it's the lack of belief in it being God's word. It's just old mythology or literature to us, like the Eddy or the Vedas, that's been misinterpreted into something else over the years. Besides one's inability to recall which book of the bible belongs where is meaningless. I've read many parts of the bible, not all of it, some parts more than others. I would probably get things like that confused, like any other religious text I don't study on a regular basis, although I understood it at an earlier point in life.

[kdbrich]

Originally Posted by Arcane

Some of us who do reject the bible, it isn't because we are ignorant of what's in it, but we reject it's credibility to begin with. It's not rejecting God's word necessarily (in spite of what some passages might declare), it's the lack of belief in it being God's word. It's just old mythology or literature to us, like the Eddy or the Vedas, that's been misinterpreted into something else over the years. Besides one's inability to recall which book of the bible belongs where is meaningless. I've read many parts of the bible, not all of it, some parts more than others. I would probably get things like that confused, like any other religious text I don't study on a regular basis, although I understood it at an earlier point in life.

If that's true, then fine--your choice. I don't believe that most folks that reject it really know what it teaches, though.

But the question about which testament Psalms is in is pretty basic.

[Haaziq]

Originally Posted by DayoftheLord

An atheist gets why we proselytize....that's got to be a first.

No, most of us actually "get it". It's just that some of the tactics people resort to are just, annoying.