I came across a pretty funny article called The Top 10 Ways to Avoid Becoming An Atheist – Modesto Atheism on the Examiner.com web site. It mostly goes through how to avoid all the temptations of truth. I particularly liked this one:
3. Never read the Bible in its entirety. You’ve successfully managed to avoid all the screwed up verses by cherry picking in Sunday school. Why start now?
I recall American Atheists was once giving away a bible because they figured that the best way to turn someone into an atheist, is to read the bible cover to cover. So true!
h/t Austin Hayward
That was fun! The Judas thing (#2) was one of the one’s that confused me as a kid – if Jesus was sent here to die for out sins, wasn’t what Judas did all part of the plan? Jesus even predicted it, so it must have been supposed to happen.