If Christians want more people reading the Bible, they should stop spoiling the plot

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• sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve been reading through the bible via a kids bible with my son.

  One of the things that legitimately shocked me is how I was completely wrong about assuming I got the gist of everything via cultural osmosis. Yeah, there’s a few spots that we hear all about, but story after story after story I’d never heard anything about.
• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What makes you think Christians want anybody to read the bible? It’s nothing but a hazing ritual meant to delay anybody who challenges their beliefs until they lose interest in discussing uncomfortable topics or give up 50 generations deep in a long list of "begat"s.

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• moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Jesus died for your sins.” “WOW. Spoiler alert, much??”

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There were a lot of ‘mystery religions’ in the ancient world with this very idea behind it- you have to become a loyal follower before you know the real truth. And, until they got exposed, Scientology operated the same way. You had to be a certain OT level before they told you about Xenu.

  So you’re not totally out there, but I think that ship has long sailed.

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• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I will say that as far as old-timey fantasy novels that are ultimately just collections of short stories go, it’s not a terrible book. It’s no Silmarillion, but I’ve read worse.

  Weird for people to hype it so much such a long time later, when there’s so much better stories around, even around worldbuilding and worldcreation and human interactions over such worldbuilding systems. Compare for example the Science of Discworld and its successor books.

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• passably9@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “stop spoiling the plot”. What does that mean? Sorry I’m a little dumb

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  • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    OP thinks the bible is a story and thinks Jesus being resurrected is the end of the book.

    When in reality it is not.

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