The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.
Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass.
The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.
If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.
I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
The Bible is a history book.
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.