Amy Letinsky recently put her Bibles on Shelfari, an online “virtual bookshelf” application. After noting that she hadn’t included the Bible as one of her “top ten” books, she writes:
There are a lot of reasons why I put other books ahead of the Bible. Perhaps with my daily devotion to reading it, I’ve made it more of a chore and less of a privilege. There’s also the fact that the Bible can be pretty hard hitting, where Jane Austen isn’t going to convict me of too much, except a little pride, or some prejudice here and there. When I read the Bible, I expect to be transformed, and sometimes, I just want to read for fun, for escapism.
I want to be like the Psalmist who wrote Psalm 119, who can’t get enough of reading the Bible: “Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long” (119:97).
(By the way, the ESV Study Bible is on Shelfari.)
October 3rd, 2008 by vigceo | Filed under Defending our faith. The Bible Do all atheists own a Bible? Personally I own two and one New Testament. As a research material what do most of you atheists use, a physical book Bible or online…
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