The Christian Bible as a whole isn't *that* long a book if it's your one sacred text that you're supposed to spend your whole life studying and basing your sense of morality and ethics on But for years I was like the only person I knew who could say I'd "read the whole Bible"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Forcing you to make it through the whole Bible in one year was this challenge my church's Bible study set for everyone that most people frankly didn't even bother to pretend not to cheat through Reading an individual book of the Bible *as a book*, straight through, is haaaard
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
I read the Bible straight through one summer at my grandparents house in Tulsa. More as a completionist achievement than anything else, but it comes in handy.
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Replying to @anthrodiva @arthur_affect and
Honestly, the surprising thing about the Bible is that it's often thoughtful, equivocal, and even profound. You just have to actually read it.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
I think it's a skeleton key to so much cultural and literary content
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Replying to @anthrodiva @mssilverstein and
The actual Bible is tremendously more interesting than the "Bible verses" that most evangelicals interact with the Bible as Although, I guess, it would have to be, because it's hard to imagine anything less interesting than those anodyne lists of pearls of wisdom
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Replying to @arthur_affect @anthrodiva and
There's still Proverbs for that
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Replying to @mssilverstein @anthrodiva and
The most interesting thing about actually reading all the Proverbs without a pastor looking over your shoulder is how many of them are genuinely fucked up by modern standards and how many of them just straight up don't make sense because they're from an ancient foreign culture
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
You should try reading the bible while experiencing psychosis. Becomes pretty obvious that a lot of the people writing it were of the same mind.
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Replying to @PoPlaysGames @arthur_affect and
And when you realise that '666 the number of the beast' refers to the number of neutrons, protons and electrons in an atom of carbon 12, the singular element that is the basis of organic chemistry and all life on earth, that in the form of fossil fuels it is responsible for wars
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Yeah I knew someone this happened to in freshman year of college Gay dude who'd just come out and been disowned by his Pentecostal family, triggered a schizophrenic/manic episode Spent like two weeks obsessively reading the Bible and books about the Bible he checked out
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PoPlaysGames and
Engaging in hypergraphic scribbling to try to condense his new revelations into a new sacred text that could square the circle of all the contradictions he'd previously seen in Scripture and form a new, purified religion
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PoPlaysGames and
This is a very specific kind of psychosis that nonetheless is distressingly common, down to the last detail, in Christian and Christian-adjacent communities Damn fucking shame
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