Reading the Bible purely as fiction is quite entertaining

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• stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world ⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  honestly I can’t understand this either

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• drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s really not.

  There are large chunks of it that are really repetitive and boring, just things like the number of goats and chickens owned by so and so.

  And like a lot of ancient mythology it can be really hard to relate to, given the vastly different cultural context that produced the text. That can be kinda entertaining in it’s own way, but mostly it just means that you’re not really going to understand the character motivations or themes of a story. Also sometimes the protagonist will do something horrifically immoral by today’s standards without the text treating it as notable at all.

  IMO all of the actual interesting parts (like Genesis) are all really short and you probably know them already from cultural osmosis.

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  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    It is also important to note that the bible was curated (and probably even edited) by the Catholic Church in the past. So what you read is basically only what they wanted you to read to begin with. I would really like to get into the apocrypha at some point - especially into alternative descriptions to the biblical canon

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  • volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    There are large chunks of it that are really repetitive and boring, just things like the number of goats and chickens owned by so and so.

    That honestly sounds like the exposition of every character in a Wes Anderson movie

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• Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I was raised without any religion and when I was 6 I found “Bible for kids” in a fairy tale section of the library. I’ve read it thinking that it’s a weird fairy tale.

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• TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How else would you read the Bible?

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Under duress, with crushing feelings of obligation, guilt, shame, horror, and dread of course 😄

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    • Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This guy Bibles.

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  • hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Whack off material.

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    • FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Song of Songs?

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As history

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• night_petal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The more entertaining read is God saying “fuck you, in particular” to Job.

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  • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    It is entertaining in a fucked up way that god kills his family and then at the end is like “uhh… here’s a new, entirely different family, let us never speak of this again”

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And then the writer just pulled the most unimaginative deus ex machina and the hero just “comes back” from the dead, pff lazy writing.

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  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s a perfectly reasonable explanation.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I had a youth pastor that said if someone made movies out of the Bible, they would all be R-rated and very popular because of all the drama, sex, and violence.

  But for some reason it’s okay for little kids to read that shit out loud to each other.

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• watson387@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well, it is fiction, so there’s that.

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• Gates9@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I find it interesting to consider that Judas was designated by Jesus for the task, in order to fulfill the prophetic criteria in the book of Daniel, which many prophetic figures in Judea were obsessed with, not just the Jesus movement.

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• FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  "I started reading the bible. It Sucks. I can’t get past the first chapter. Don’t buy this author’s books."

  • Sir Baby of Cakes

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• RogueBanana@piefed.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maybe the author saw his own work, decided it’s shit and the only way to redeem it was to make a religion out of it.

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  • IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨minute⁩ ago

    You could made a religion out of this!

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCn8ux2gbs&pp=ygUjaGlzdG9y…

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• ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Read “Ecclesiastes” and the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). 👍

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Or just read a good book instead

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  • mastertigurius@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I find Lord of the Rings to be a better read myself

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