The Good Book

[loramin]

I had to read it twice: first for a high school English AP course (it was assigned as reading over the summer too, which made it worse, but I only had to read the Old Testament), and then again for a college literature course (both testaments).

Both times were pretty awful: it's not a good book. However, most Western literature written makes some allusions to the bible, so it is a relevant read if you're studying literary analysis.

[loramin]

P.S. I also read the Epic of Gilgamesh, The Bodivagita, The Analects of Confucius and (big chunks of) the Koran. None of them were "good books" either, so I'm not just crapping on the bible.

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The Bodivagita.

Is that the sequel to the Bhagavad Gita?

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Reiwa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Is that the sequel to the Bhagavad Gita?

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I hadn't had my coffee yet, and it's a hard name to remember

[Kaveh]

Originally Posted by Reiwa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Is that the sequel to the Bhagavad Gita?

I lol’d at this dunk

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

P.S. I also read the Epic of Gilgamesh, The Bodivagita, The Analects of Confucius and (big chunks of) the Koran. None of them were "good books" either, so I'm not just crapping on the bible.

There’s a difference between like good prose and a good stories, like… you should be blown away at those 6000-year-old stories that are actually pretty much the same story that you paid to go see in a Marvel movie.

But for kids today it’s really hard to compete with marvel movies.

I would say what you went through was an example of it being shoved up your ass [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[unsunghero]

Nice goals man

[DeathsSilkyMist]

It is kind of silly to say any book/story that has survived 2000+ years is bad.

If you don't like them personally, that is perfectly fine.

Objectively speaking any book/story that has survived 2000+ years is a good book/story, even if it is difficult to understand why that is. Otherwise you wouldn't know the story of Jesus, Gligamesh, etc. People would have stopped caring and forgotten about them hundreds of years ago.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Objectively speaking any book/story that has survived 2000+ years is a good book/story, even if it is difficult to understand why that is. Otherwise you wouldn't know the story of Jesus, Gligamesh, etc. People would have stopped caring and forgotten about them hundreds of years ago.

That is simply not true. We read the epic of Gilgamesh because it's the earliest known form of literature. It has nothing to do with the quality of the text, and everything to do with that text being preserved while other texts weren't.

In short, if The Epic of Bob had survived from before Gilgamesh, we'd be discussing it instead in literature classes. And it's the same thing with the bible: it's only survived for so long because it's a religious text of the cultural group that happened to win out ... not because it's good literature.

There are countless other texts that are odes to Osiris, or Dionysus, or whatever other god, all from the same time as the bible ... that no one reads today, even though they're just as good from a literary perspective.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That is simply not true. We read the epic of Gilgamesh because it's the earliest known form of literature. It has nothing to do with the quality of the text, and everything to do with that text being preserved while other texts weren't.

In short, if The Epic of Bob had survived from before Gilgamesh, we'd be discussing it instead in literature classes. And it's the same thing with the bible: it's only survived for so long because it's a religious text of the cultural group that happened to win out ... not because it's good literature.

There are countless other texts that are odes to Osiris, or Dionysus, or whatever other god, all from the same time as the bible ... that no one reads today, even though they're just as good from a literary perspective.

It's factually true, even if you don't like it. The text survived for a reason. If people didn't like it, they wouldn't have preserved it.