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Politics and religion are not my cup of tea for discussion so I avoid them. I draw the line at personal insults. Many people, when they disagree with a post on the topic, respond with a personal...

I came to the internet some years ago with generally optimistic expectations for friendly book discussions, but I didn't realize how nasty and determined some troublemakers could be. It is since...

True, all true, Every last ironic word of it.

Thanks for the time and answer. :)

Where's the author for people who just don't get it?

Carry on. Have fun.

Even taking your description as correct, you still prove my point. Christians' understanding of their faith is quite varied. I don't see Dawkins as having any serious interest in trying to...

It was stale beer as far as I was concerned and, as usual among atheists whom I have seen express themselves, he was outraged at the wrong strawman. I have no interest in discussing such...

I read the book not so long ago and enjoyed it immensely -- I now realize for many of the reasons cited in the excellent posts above. But the humor, oh, the humor! Fantastic!

Yays for the victory! It's not easy.

Nobody has mentioned The Jefferson Bible. Heavily redacted according to Jefferson's own sensibilities, it might be worth a look for people who want only the "nice" parts and the parts that a more or...

Actually, PrinceMyshkin, Kierkegaard and Einstein both speak to me, each in their own way, about the respective realms in which they are expert. So I, for one, don't see the dichotomy.

As I said, "The atheists I run into on forums are always telling me they know more about my Bible, my religion, my God, my Faith, than I do."

Have I lived in a cave?

AIE: Sorry to have deviated...

Yes, andave_ya, that is all true, and moreso each time one reads it. Amen.

The atheists I run into on forums are always telling me they know more about my Bible, my religion, my God, my Faith, than I do. Feh!
My Faith survives despite all of what they tell me is fatal...

Refresh my memory someone, please.
Was it Christianity, or religion in general, that according to his own words he wishes to eradicate as being an absolute evil in the World?
So, totally against...

I didn't mind the lists of names.
I read through them just to see what names were like, and also on the chance that there might be some structure or relatedness to them rather than just the...

I have read the Bible and have it here alongside me, and I strongly endorse all the good things that have been said above about reading the Bible, and especially the KJV. I'd like to add just one...

I'm assuming you already know the basic? That the Bible is not a novel, nor written like a novel, nor even a Homeric epic. It is a collection of individual books written at different times by...

I read A Dance to the Music of Time when it was first published and Powell was immediately compared to Proust, whom incidentally I had also read -- all volumes of both. I would say the comparison to...

Just from my very amateur self, I will say that trying to write poetry increased my ability to read it enormously. It focuses the attention, and leads to a true sense of appreciation for what poets...

I can imagine discussion forums more broadly devoted than just Western, if one cared to do a bit of googling.

I definitely agree with reading more broadly than Western works, but I wouldn't be so hard on Bloom, especially when his Western Canon is after all limited to Western works. I wouldn't call it...

Knowledge the end of art or literature? No! On the contrary, knowledge is the beginning of creativity and appreciation in art and literature. Picasso's art works are little appreciated by people...

I don't know why it is so difficult for men to just avoid using all pet names (dear), terms of affection (honey), fruits (peach), mildly derogatory 'just joking' terms (broad), diminishing terms...