{"id":716,"date":"2011-08-20T22:46:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T12:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2011-08-20T23:35:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T13:35:08","slug":"familiarity-with-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Familiarity with Scripture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question from Casey:<\/strong><br \/>\nEver read the Bible or any other religious doctrine?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Answer by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smartlx\">SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nGrowing up as a Christian, and attending Catholic primary school for many years, I became quite familiar with the Bible.  We mainly dealt with the most well-known parts of it: Genesis, Exodus, the four Gospels and so on.  I was never devout enough to try to read the thing recreationally (except for one attempt, from which I was soon distracted) but I think I was exposed to a great deal of it.  Nowadays, I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/\">Bible Gateway<\/a> and other online copies of the text to look up passages as and when they become relevant to questions from the site, or my own curiosity.  To be frank, the more I read the less I like or believe it.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs for other religious texts, like the Quran, the Book of Mormon or the Talmud, I mostly know their contents from quotes.  I do of course make sure a scripture really says what I think it says before I attempt to describe its position on an issue or event.  If you think I&#8217;ve misrepresented something in the Bible (going by your following question, Casey, it&#8217;s clear that you&#8217;re a Christian), let me know.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nJake and Andrea will add their experiences with religious texts, if they&#8217;re around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question from Casey: Ever read the Bible or any other religious doctrine? Answer by SmartLX: Growing up as a Christian, and attending Catholic primary school for many years, I became quite familiar with the Bible. We mainly dealt with the most well-known parts of it: Genesis, Exodus, the four Gospels and so on. I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=716\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Familiarity with Scripture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[39,171],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","tag-bible","tag-doctrine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-by","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}