Why everyone should read the Bible

Posted 2 years ago by Bear

David Plotz spent a year reading and blogging about reading the Bible and came to the conclusion that everyone needs to read the Bible.

You can't get through a chapter of the Bible, even in the most obscure book, without encountering a phrase, a name, a character, or an idea that has come down to us 3,000 years later. The Bible is the first source of everything from the smallest plot twists (the dummy David's wife places in the bed to fool assassins) to the most fundamental ideas about morality (the Levitical prohibition of homosexuality that still shapes our politics, for example) to our grandest notions of law and justice. It was a joyful shock to me when I opened the Book of Amos and read the words that crowned Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.

I got pretty much the same argument from my high school English teacher.

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