How Much of the Bible Have Churchgoers Read?

[zipplewrath]

8. actually

if we wanna talk in metaphorical percentages, "95%" of people who participate in organized religion do it for reasons relatively disconnected from issues of faith or theology. They are interested in the sense of belonging, of the concept of community, and of the need to teach lessons of morality for which they feel unsuited themselves to teach. Quite honestly, this isn't all that much different than illiterate parents that send their children to school to read. Innumerable parents don't understand their children's high school mathematics, but know it is important. I can't tell you the number of engineers that I know whose parents, wives and children don't really understand anything about what they do or how they do it. People know that morality is important and don't be surprised that they will look for "outside" help to teach it.

I'm not surprised that the majority of the population of the US hasn't read the whole bible. By this day and age, with the collapse of almost anything representing a "liberal arts" education (liberal in the academic sense, not the political one) there are almost no "universal" texts that we all read and study. God's to honest truth if I were to require a set of text to be study by "everyone" the bible probably wouldn't be on it. You might want to study "about" it, but not the text itself. I could probably put together a list, but a bit like the Benoit College Mindset List, it would be changed and updated regularly.