{"id":840,"date":"2010-02-10T08:52:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=840"},"modified":"2010-02-10T08:56:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T13:56:33","slug":"the-bible-is-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=840","title":{"rendered":"The Bible is Boring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I stumbled upon an interesting atheist YouTube video. Yeah, I know there are a million of them and atheists pretty much own YouTube these days, but this one pointed out something that is really obvious. The Bible is boring.<\/p>\n<p>The best selling book of all time really suck from both a literary and entertainment standpoint. The writing is just bad. I think I wrote about this once before, but I think it needs to be addressed again.<\/p>\n<p>The Bible is long and boring. Apparently the creator of the universe can\u2019t write for shit. God is alleged to be all-knowing and yet he doesn\u2019t know how to write an interesting, entertaining, or consistent series of books.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it, what would you rather read the entire Harry Potter series twice or the Bible once? I think this should be a challenge to all Christians. I don\u2019t care if someone is a mainstream Christian, a fundamentalist Christian, or some other type of Christian. I think every Christian should be asked which they would rather read cover-to-cover (Harry Potter series twice vs. Bible once). I don\u2019t mean in a hypothetical way either. I think ever Christian should actually commit to doing one or the other.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many Christians would pick the Bible? The Harry Potter series is long and reading it twice is a bit much, but we have to make this challenging more interesting, because if it was just the Harry Potter series once, every Christian would pick it wands down.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, here is the YouTube video that gave me the idea:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/swdzmkOmAa8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/swdzmkOmAa8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br \/>\n<a onclick=\"return addthis_sendto()\" onmouseover=\"return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')\" onmouseout=\"addthis_close()\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;pub=dangeroustalk\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/lg-share-en.gif\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><script src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js?pub=dangeroustalk\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button END --><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=840\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 317364;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I stumbled upon an interesting atheist YouTube video. 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