Have you read your holy book

[paarsurrey]

Besides Quran and Bible(OT+NT) I have read Gathas/Yasna of Zoroaster from cover to cover. Right?

Besides Quran and Bible(OT+NT) ,Gathas/Yasna of Zoroaster I have read Bhagavad Gita of Krishna from cover to cover. I liked all of the above, please. Right?

Regards

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

It seems to me that the religion least dedicated to their "entire" book is christianity, which is no big surprise, i am only surprised that more christians read the bible than i imagined.

Some info:

The vast majority of Christians in history (over almost 2,000 years) were illiterate. That's part of the reason why stained glass and other church art was developed - to visually teach the stories and concepts to people who couldn't read. It's not required for Christians to read through the Bible. The Bible is not the point of the religion - your faith, belief, virtuous conduct and practice of the rites is what matters. The idea all Christians must read the Bible and everything rests on that is a Protestant idea. It's foreign to Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Catholic and Orthodox Christians are still encouraged to read it on their own, though.

As for Muslims, almost half of them are illiterate these days and most of them don't read Arabic, especially the classical Arabic of the Qur'an, which is considered the only authentic version of it. So, no - they're not reading the Qur'an as much as thought.

 

[ChristineM]

Some info:

The vast majority of Christians in history (over almost 2,000 years) were illiterate. That's part of the reason why stained glass and other church art was developed - to visually teach the stories and concepts to people who couldn't read. It's not required for Christians to read through the Bible. The Bible is not the point of the religion - your faith, belief, virtuous conduct and practice of the rites is what matters. The idea all Christians must read the Bible and everything rests on that is a Protestant idea. It's foreign to Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Catholic and Orthodox Christians are still encouraged to read it on their own, though.

As for Muslims, almost half of them are illiterate these days and most of them don't read Arabic, especially the classical Arabic of the Qur'an, which is considered the only authentic version of it. So, no - they're not reading the Qur'an as much as thought.

Interesting and correct but it didn't really address the question. Have you read your holy book?

 

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Some info:

The vast majority of Christians in history (over almost 2,000 years) were illiterate. That's part of the reason why stained glass and other church art was developed - to visually teach the stories and concepts to people who couldn't read. It's not required for Christians to read through the Bible. The Bible is not the point of the religion - your faith, belief, virtuous conduct and practice of the rites is what matters. The idea all Christians must read the Bible and everything rests on that is a Protestant idea. It's foreign to Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Catholic and Orthodox Christians are still encouraged to read it on their own, though.

As for Muslims, almost half of them are illiterate these days and most of them don't read Arabic, especially the classical Arabic of the Qur'an, which is considered the only authentic version of it. So, no - they're not reading the Qur'an as much as thought.

People might not have all read, but they listened to Quran (mostly).

 

[paarsurrey]

Besides Quran and Bible(OT+NT) ,Gathas/Yasna of Zoroaster I have read Bhagavad Gita of Krishna from cover to cover. I liked all of the above, please. Right?

Besides Quran and Bible(OT+NT) ,Gathas/Yasna of Zoroaster I have read Bhagavad Gita of Krishna, and Yajurveda (of Hinduism) from cover to cover. I liked all of the above, please. Right?

Regards

 

[PearlSeeker]

I did read the first volume of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Does that count?

You have to read it 42 times.

 

[PearlSeeker]

I have read the Bible cover to cover. I agree that few Catholic Christians have read it that way but many read/listen to the daily passages (from OT - one of them is from Psalms, and from NT).

I have read also:
Tao Te Ching
The Law of One
The Gospel of Ramakrishna (I have finished only Volume 1)