I have been saying this for a long time now. I wondered who and more importantly why this group was created. It is only leftists in the alphabet group because conservatives are thrown out. But really. What was the rational behind putting these people in the same collective. Did someone on the left say one day, "let's create a group of all of the sexual misfits and deviants and pretend they are all the same"?
It is. Perhaps Canada, eastern Canada, would be suited for them. That is a whole lot of people so maybe not all of them, just the majority of them because there are still a lot of conservatives in California. A lot of them have left (like me) but there's still a lot of conservatives who still live in California.
I just think California is too good of a state to give it to Mexico. It has a longer growing season and produces more crops than all other states combined. It has great beaches. And the weather is the best in the country. California would be soooooooooo much better without leftists making the place unbearable.
I left over 25 years ago, so I am not part of the exodus that Newsom caused. I left because it was bad then. It was a great state to grow up in but sometime in the 80's the political climate started to shift more towards an authoritarian state. It may have started in the 70's but I was just a teenager then and I didn't know what was going on.
I don't know the sample size of each participating groups. They could have picked a lot of atheists who have actually read the Bible by accident.
I don't know the questions that were asked, I only know what they were trying to assess from each category. I would imagine that there have been atheists who have read the Bible once. I doubt if any have read it more than once.
It also depends on what you are looking for in the Bible. If you are an atheist looking to disparage Judaism and Christianity you can find that.
If you are looking for answers on who God is, who Jesus is and what they expect of us if we want to live with them for eternity, you can find that also because that is the actual intent of the Bible.
Years ago I had a discussion with an atheist about the Christianity of our founding fathers. Not on ImgFlip, it was on YouTube. They gave me some quote from Benjamin Franklin that made it seem like Franklin had left Christianity altogether. So I looked up that quote online. That was when I realized that this guy must have pulled the quote off an atheist website and it had been mangled to make it say something Franklin never said. I copied and pasted the actual quote where Franklin had a falling out with is Presbyterian pastor and stopped attending church with that pastor. However, he paid tithing to the Presbyterian church the rest of his life. He never left Christianity, he just stopped attending that one pastor's church. What I don't know is if he attended another Presbyterian Church or some other Christian Sect. But he never lost faith in God and Jesus.
I tend to think a lot of atheists who claim to have read the Bible have only read selected passages of the Bible from atheist web sites. There is a bit of a difference between saying I have read the Bible and I have read the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Atheist websites, as I found out, are not very trustworthy.
I, on the other hand, have read the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation. I am not saying I am any better than anyone because it took me forever to finally force myself to sit down and actually read it in its entirety. I am on my second reading of it right now. I am a little over halfway through the Old Testament. I'm reading the King James Version. I just bought the Dead Sea Scroll version of the Bible and I intend on reading that next.
