Hah. In truth, the average Christian will read a hundred Christian books as long as he can avoid reading the Bible. It hurts. If your friendly neighbor Christian was to read the Bible in plain English, without theologians to assure him that it does not say what it seems to say, he would be horrified.
(Oh, you know how this is gonna go, but I still feel I ought to say it... :) )
Raised RC, confirmed RC, daughter of a man who was also RC and was academically raised by Jesuits, I am disputing. My young self, my dad, and C.S. Lewis are feelin' impugned, here.
And given that two of the things I remember reading very early on are the story of Jael[1] and the bit in the back of the kid's-edition Bible about creepy things[2], it's not like I somehow only preserved my literacy through lack of exposure to the Bible. I am just saying. --- [1] Such an awesome lady, I tell you. That picture of just her hand holding the tent-spike above Sisera's head... :) [2] Bats and rats and spiders and "things from under rotten logs". Nifty little poem. Lovely painting.
Jael rocks! And Judith with that guy's severed head is also a great painting motive, sure to leave a lasting impression. Sadly for Protestants, that one in the Apocrypha.
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Date: 2009-05-01 02:00 pm (UTC)(I did read it. Goddamn, Exodus is a slog and a half.)
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Date: 2009-05-01 06:28 pm (UTC)Psychologists estimate that roughly 2% of the human population of the planet are clinical sociopaths.
I think 2% is the amount that haven't found a superstition to hide their sociopathy behind.
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Date: 2009-05-01 03:53 pm (UTC)Raised RC, confirmed RC, daughter of a man who was also RC and was academically raised by Jesuits, I am disputing. My young self, my dad, and C.S. Lewis are feelin' impugned, here.
And given that two of the things I remember reading very early on are the story of Jael[1] and the bit in the back of the kid's-edition Bible about creepy things[2], it's not like I somehow only preserved my literacy through lack of exposure to the Bible. I am just saying.
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[1] Such an awesome lady, I tell you. That picture of just her hand holding the tent-spike above Sisera's head... :)
[2] Bats and rats and spiders and "things from under rotten logs". Nifty little poem. Lovely painting.
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