You’d be surprised. I read the Bible cover to cover in high school (one of the reasons I no longer have faith), and it amazed me how many people in my life that were also Christian that were entirely unfamiliar with entire books or lessons…
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INeedMana@lemmy.world 4 weeks agogo to church
And how many have read at least one testament? Reading is not rare anymore
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Similar story here except for the longest time I didn’t realize that my fellow church goers didn’t know what the Bible said, and thus couldn’t distinguish between biblical lessons and purely made-up ones
INeedMana@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s my point, I wouldn’t be surprised, unfortunately
To be fair, I couldn’t get through it either. But I’d guess if one decides to take something as their guidance, it would be a good idea to read it at least once
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
The bible teaches that slavery is a-okay. It doesn’t surprise me that you’re not faithful anymore. Many other fucked up shit like that. I’m betting that if more people ACTUALLY read the bible, there’d a shitload less christians.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It was okay for everyone at the time, indentured slavery was a thing. That was basically the closest way people in the past got actual job security
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Didn’t go into so much detail woth most people of faith I’ve met, but I know for a fact mum read both the Old and New Testaments and decided she doesn’t want to have anything to do with the Church’s interpretations, because they focused on essentially anything other than empathy and being human.