Which religious texts do you own?

[Bishka]

Which ones do you own and why?

 

[logician]

All these polls, do you work for the CIA? LOL

 

[Gentoo]

All I have right now is the Tao te Ching and the I-Ching. I plan on getting a lot more when I can afford it.

 

[Popeyesays]

I have many more including the Avestas of Zoroastrianism and most of the Sikh books. There are plenty more Baha`i texts on the sehlf and in my computer as well. I also have the Avedas, Upanishaad and The Dharma Sutras, but I am not very conversant with them.

Regards,
Scott

 

[Engyo]

Quite a few Buddhist Sutras and commentaries.

A bunch of New Thought writers.

And I think there is even a copy of Dianetics around somewhere.

 

[Bishka]

All these polls, do you work for the CIA? LOL

Oh yes, don't you know? I'm your happy, cheerful CIA agent.

 

[Jaymes]

I got my Quran from CAIR before they started charging for them. It's understandable that they're charging shipping, though... those things are huge!

You forgot the Dhammapada, Becky.

 

[Popeyesays]

You can get The Bahai Resource Library as one BIG huge download from:
Bahai Education - Bahai Software and Education Resources

It includes: Christian, bahai, Buddhist, Tao, Zoroastrian, Hindu, Judaic, Islamic and Sikh holy books full searchable. If you do not have a high-speed conncection you can request a CD in the mail. The CD costs for the disk and the postage and that's it.

No contributions are accepted.

Regards,
Scott

 

[Booko]

In no particular order, I have a couple of editions of the Dhammapada, some Avestan lit, collections of hadith, Tao-te-Ching, Zen koans, Native American traditions, one Sufi work, LaVey, Upanishads, Ashtavakra Gita, Bhagavad-Gita, collections on Norse and Greek religions, several translations of the Qu'ran, and...probably something else I'm forgetting. It's been quite a while since I read many of the Hindu texts and those are probably the ones I'm least acquainted with.

As for Baha'i books, I have many of those as well. The Kitab-i-Aqdas is not what I'd recommend as a starter book. It needs to be read in the context of everything else, and there's a LOT of everything else.

Becky: I'd recommend you change your poll to read something more generic like just: Baha'i Writings.

 

[Booko]

All these polls, do you work for the CIA? LOL

You could just tell her you have some Bertrand Russell on your shelf, you know.

 

[painted wolf]

I'm hoping to get more at some point. I'd love a copy of the Quran and Talmud for instance.
I have a bunch not on the list... such as the Papyrus of Ani (the Egyptian book of the dead).

wa:do

 

[athanasius]

I own The Holy Bible(Several additions), The book of Mormon, and the Jehovah's Witnesses New world translation of the bible(A horrible transliteration). Also the "Key to health and scriptures" by Marry Baker Eddy.

 

[Bishka]

Becky: I'd recommend you change your poll to read something more generic like just: Baha'i Writings.

You want to change that for me?

 

[Booko]

You want to change that for me?

Done!

 

[Aqualung]

OT, NT, BoM, D&C/PoGP, some Gnostic stuff, and the Tanak (by virtue of the fact that I have the OT, and I don't know that there is any difference).

 

[Popeyesays]

OT, NT, BoM, D&C/PoGP, some Gnostic stuff, and the Tanak (by virtue of the fact that I have the OT, and I don't know that there is any difference).

There's a big difference. It's organized differently, some books of the OT are either combined or split, and in English it is based on the Hebrew text not the Greek Septaguint.

Also a BIG difference is that there is no contextual baggage aobut considering "old" as compared to the "new" Christian Testament.

regards,
Scott

 

[Aqualung]

There's a big difference. It's organized differently, some books of the OT are either combined or split, and in English it is based on the Hebrew text not the Greek Septaguint.

Also a BIG difference is that there is no contextual baggage aobut considering "old" as compared to the "new" Christian Testament.

regards,
Scott

I'm talking pure content, not aesthetics or projection.

But, I didn't know that the OT was based on the Greek Septuagint. For some reason I thought it was based off both.

 

[Azakel]

In the house we have the Bible(old and new testament), a Book of Mormons, and I Personally have The Satanic Bible and the book of I-Ching.

 

[Mike182]

i voted old testament, new testament, Qur'an, Satanic Verses/Satanic Bible and Other.

the others being:

"Magic" by Alister Crowley.
"The Iliad" by Homer.
"Principia Discordia - or - How i found the Goddess, and what i did to her when i found her" by Malaclypse the Younger.

i know a lot, if not most, would say that those don't count as scripture, but they do to me.




i have the Book of Mormon bookmarked in my web browser, but i don't think that counts as owning it...

 

[spiritually inclined]

I have the Bible in a few translations, according one with the Deuterocanonicals (spelling?), some Buddhist scriptures (not all of them), the Koran, and some new age scriptures for a Ramtha cult called The White Book.

I have Bibles because I once had a fundamentalist view of the Bible. I still read it from time to time -- a habit I guess. Sometimes I study it.

I have the Koran because I'm interested in what it says.

I used to have some interest in "Ramtha's" teachings; a friend sent me the book. I now think the person claiming to channel Ramtha is a fraud.

I would like to have more of them. I found some interesting similarities between the Buddhist scriptures and the gospel of Jesus. I don't remember them all, just that Buddha was described in a Christ-like/god-like way, and it says something very similar to he grew in grace and truth....something like that...there's also one in the Bible that says something like that about Jesus.

James