Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site whuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!whuxl!orb From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Absurdity Revisited: A Perfect Example Message-ID: <66@whuxl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 12:46:14 EDT Article-I.D.: whuxl.66 Posted: Thu Jul 26 12:46:14 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jul-84 20:31:44 EDT References: <146@usfbobo.UUCP>, <852@pyuxn.UUCP>, <149@usfbobo.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany, N.J. Lines: 18 I think that the Bible is a very interesting book. However I think some people (like my own sister) get carried away with its educational value. I have given my sister numerous books on Buddhism, the nuclear arms race, evolution, and so forth. She never seems to read them because she is too busy reading the Bible. I just finished reading the New Testament in a week--my question is: how many times can you reread the same book? Wouldn't it be wise to read some other sources or viewpoints every once in a while? Now of course I know some people will criticize a one-week reading of the Bible as shallow and trivial. But if it takes a week for me to read the New Testament, in a year I could read it 52 times. But what is served by that? Might I not be more informed by reading other religions sacred works as well? Or reading Darwin's "Origin of Species" (even if superficially) and so forth? I think it is very worthwhile to read the Bible but I think it is foolish to make it the only thing you read--there is too much to be learned for such a narrow vision of life!