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[Olaf]

@Majed I read like the first 30 pages or so of the bible, I really tried to read it, but I couldn't, they kept talking about hell and it felt like I was reading the most toxic news channel or something.

Edited 4 hours ago by Olaf

[Nemra]

As a kid mostly surrounded by Christians and went to church (not of my own volition), I'm glad that I haven't taken Christianity too seriously and I never read the Bible.

I had the intuition that those people are being conformist about it as they treat some words as the truth over experience. Why should I read some stories about God?

I felt that if something is true it cannot be dependent on the Bible.

My hatred of reading books came from observing how Christians are eager to worship their stories.

I'm an alien around where I live.

Edited 4 hours ago by Nemra

[MuadDib]

What is Death?

Ingest 30gr dried shrooms.

Sit until vital organ failure.

Should you read the Bible?

 

Philosophers assume ego and arrogance.

Follow for more basic science experiments.

[Leo Gura]

10 minutes ago, MuadDib said:

 

That's an interesting picture.

[bazera]

https://www.actualized.org/insights/should-you-read-the-bible

Quote

Peter Ralston’s The Book Of Not-Knowing is worth 100 Bibles. But no one even knows it exists. That’s how dumb humanity is.

You should see his latest book  

Great post man! My father used to tell me to read the Gospels to understand God, and I always refused because it didn't make sense to me how God was to be understood by reading stories of Jesus. 

And the mental gymnastics that Christians go through to defend facts from the Bible and portray them as literal truths like Earth being 5000 years old and Noah's ark being real, is so funny. As if Christian God's existence depends on those facts being historically accurate.

[Nemra]

There was a literature professor in my university that made us do Christian prayer for the exam and our grades depended on how authentically we prayed. 🤣

Edited 1 hour ago by Nemra

[Leo Gura]

20 minutes ago, bazera said:

Great post man!

Thanks

[Ulax]

58 minutes ago, Nemra said:

There was a literature professor in my university that made us do Christian prayer for the exam and our grades depended on how authentically we prayed. 🤣

lmao

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, Nemra said:

There was a literature professor in my university that made us do Christian prayer for the exam and our grades depended on how authentically we prayed. 🤣

"Dear Jesus, please give me a million dollars. Amen."

Edited 1 hour ago by Leo Gura

[Someone here]

I know the Quran was written by Muhammad and that I don’t believe it is the direct word of God, as it claims to be. Nevertheless, there is something about the Arabic recitation of the Quran it feels  like a drug for the soul. That is one of the reasons I continue to read it.

One of the key differences I see between the Bible and the Quran is their approach to storytelling. The Bible often spends considerable time on detailed narratives, genealogies, historical events, and other minutiae, whereas the Quran tends to be more direct and focused on spiritual and theological concepts. It still copy pastes stories the Bible lolz.

That said, both contain moral laws that can be viewed as barbaric by modern standards, as well as passages that appear to contain scientific errors and encouraging violence which is obviously outdated. 
 

 

[Nemra]

Almost forgot that at school we used to recite prayers from the Quran, Coptic Christian, and Orthodox Christian traditions before beginning literature or religious classes.

Edited 25 minutes ago by Nemra

[Nemra]

30 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

"Dear Jesus, please give me a million dollars. Amen."

😁

There is a comedy sketch in which an old lady and a businessman are praying. The old lady prays to God to give her some money and the businessman prays to God to give him an expensive car. Both are praying so hard that the businessman gets annoyed with the old lady and gives her the amount of money she wanted. 😂

It's very funny watching it, but it's in a language you won't understand.

Edited 33 minutes ago by Nemra

[Husseinisdoingfine]

On 9/30/2026 at 8:30 PM, Leo Gura said:

I plan to read a different book from Marx.

May I please ask which book? I've personally only read the following;

• Das Kapital (Capital) Vol. 1
• Manifesto of the Communist Party
• The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
• Theses on Feuerbach

The last three on this list were from this edition:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-communist-manifesto-and-other-writings-karl-marx/1100318389?ean=9781593081003