Which of the following Religious Books do you read the most?

Kid...you are being taken for a ride here.

There is nothing in those verses that says anything like what you are pretending they are saying.

And Dr. Keith Moore is an idiot if he is saying that they do.

If you want to live the pretence -- do so. I wish you the best with it.

But if you intend to argue these points here on the Internet, you'd better come equipped with a lot more than the baloney you are trying to pass of as filet mignon here.

I've read the new testament, and am fairly familiar with it. The old testament just doesn't do it for me. I hope that's not offensive to anyone, but it doesn't seem to have any truth in it that people can't figure out for themselves. I'm also pretty familiar with the Book of Mormon, which I have read the most, but lately I've been in the bible more frequently. Haven't read the others.

Q Kid,

On one point you are absolutely correct. Ignorance IS bliss, at least until reality intervenes.

Ignorance of the sciences of physics, economics, psychology indeed prepares one to accept the world as one finds it.

Of course those who are not ignorant of these things may live a little better

Forgive me if My personal preference for a warm place to sleep, healthy children, and a comfortable retirement precludes my remaining ignorant although if I divorced existence from facts I would be happier no doubt. This would be Fantastic, and I would live in a fantasy world. Should I still be alive, that is

The Big Book

It is true, though, that ignorance is bliss, since once you realize that you're doing something stupid you are no longer ignorant. Ignorance is the blissful breeze that caresses you when you jump from an airplane without a parachute.

As for which religious book I read the most? I'm pretty fond of the Dragonlance series... but I guess that's not really as religious as, say... the bible.

I like to reads books by krishnamurti, Alan Watts, and Joseph Campbell. When I'm desperate I'll read a Zen koan like, "what is the sound of one hand clapping?" In a few minutes I start running around in a circle, going "woo, woo, woowoo, woowoowoowoowoo, stop and run my hands down my face several times, ala Curly. This seems to make more sense than reading the approved holy books.

And in the end it gets you more excercize, which is pretty admirable in itself.

one persons door stop is anothers pablum is anothers bible..........

For me i always read Quran ....
I really feel so comfortable when i read it .....

I recommend to those who are in a spiritual flux, spliritual quest, or questioning their religion to read Josaph Campbell's "The Power of Myth." this book contains, more or less, the original dialogue between Campbell and Bill Moyers that has been presented on the PBS series of the same name.

Campbell shows that, though it's difficult to take your own religious myths and symbols other than in a literal sense, by studying the religious myths of other cultures one can understand the underlying metaphorical sense of, not only the myths of the other cultures, but the myths of your own religion as well.

After all, the human condition is universal, therefore the myths of diverse cultures are describing the same things. Taking myths literally has perplexed young people educated in the modern world. They must choose between taking the myths literally and rejecting science or vice versa. So they choose science and "throw the baby out with the bathwater."

Campbell shows that there is no conflict whatsoever between religion and science if the religious myths are taken as poetry and pointers to human mystical experience.

Another book I would recommend would be MAD Magazine.

Frank- Agree. There are plenty of philosophical and social gems to be found in that publication. Alfred E. Neumann rules!!!!

Re: mongers list


The problem is, where does it end? The search is not the point. The answer is.

Re: The best book


Interesting. That's exactly what I say about the Bible. In fact, I would think that's what most people would say about the holy book they adhere to.

Check it out, everyone is an opportunist when it comes to religion:

http://www.warzonewinner.com/

sorry for inturuptin this box but defenetly i read the bible and i have no clue what the heck the other books are so there ha!

Religious Books
So, sue me, I am a bibliophile. The eye was attracted to the word "books" for my first post.

I am currently learning Hilchos Teshuva by the Rambam (the Laws of Repentence by Maimonides) and Tractate Avodah Zerah (Idol Worship) which is one of the "books" of the Talmud which is, by the way, considered Torah by religious Jews.
The Torah is specifically the first five books of Moses, as previously mentioned but, for religious Jews, it is also the Tanach; the Talmud; and much, much more - many, many "commentaries."

The world seems to consider "the DaVinci Code" a religious book. I read that. It's not. But, it is a fun read.

I try to keep up with the Koran to attempt to understand what the heck the radical Islamic death cultists are up to and where they source their material from...

Some of my past favorites have been: the New Testament; Bhagavad Gita; the Upanishads; books on Tibetan Buddhism (Trunga Rinpoche?); the Tai Chi Chuan writings of Master Cheng; Gurdjieff; Ouspensky; Maurice Nicoll; Rodney Collins; Swedenborg; Balzac; the Brother's Grimm; Shakespeare; Homer and Aristophanes.
All profoundly religious in different ways.

If I delve back far enough, I seem to recall that I did read everything Alan Watts wrote and I made my own religion out of "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein (science fiction, but very religious, as it was...)

I enjoyed the MU books and Baba Ram Dass (Richard Alpert).

I am sure there are more, but the brain cells are not willing...

Nowadays, I tend to study Torah. A lot...

Hey Frank Apisa

There's an Arabic proverb that says:
"Man is an enemy of what he ignores"

For your hopless case and ignorant naive arrogance, I really recommend this site:
http://www.answering-christianity.com/sci_quran.htm

:wink:

I read the book of the atheist...