• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Obviously. I am an atheist today because I went to Catholic school where I had to read the bible. Nothing makes better atheists than those who actually read the bible.

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      Isaac Asimov famously said “Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”

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        Mark Twain:

        It ain’t the parts of the bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it’s the parts I can understand.