What about getting one of those warning stickers from the ffrf for it? Or write "Bullshit" on it.

I thought about the ffrf but i think i want something shorter.  I want someone to look at the bible and think oh he doesn't believe that. I have not decided yet how offensive I would like it to be.  I think the shorter an sweeter the better, but i want people to understand it. I think putting bullshit would just make people wonder what it means. If i did that i would need like this book is bullshit or something along those lines.

Love the last one, but for the love of God(just an expression folks), please do not talk while reading a Bible in a church.  Unless you want to get in a religeous debate with some smug young man, get a stern talking-to by some middle-aged lady, get invited by 3 to 5 people to Bible study classes, and to get the evil eye from most of the congregation the next time you enter.  Which you might.

Put a sticker on it that changes the title to "Holey Buybull" or whatever your favorite name for it is.  

Does everyone think that this will get it across if someone just glances at it?

That tag seems mighty overstated to me. I could understand certain of those claims, but the Bible nowhere promotes (in fact, many of these are very much cause for condemnation in the Bible), for example: suicide, incest, homosexuality, voyeurism, sadomasochism, use of drugs or alcohol, sexual activity in a violent context, bestiality, revenge, undermining of authority figures, or lawlessness. On a sidenote, if the Bible DID support, for example, "homosexuality" or "bestiality" or "use of drugs and alcohol" wouldn't you folks rejoice in this? Really, then why the advocates of homosexuality who claim the Bible evil and outdated because it condemns such action? Or, if frat parties were sponsored by the Bible with requisite commands that "Thou shalt engage in consumption of large quantities of ale and whoring," why wouldn't college frat boys take every opportunity to rejoice in the Bible?

Yours In Christ, Eternal Wisdom,
StMichael

I didn't claim that all people who were atheists did those things. I just ask why, then, people seem to think that the Bible condemns these actions? If the homosexual community found those passages, I think they would be very happy. Likewise for those people who love drugs and alcohol. I think we need to bring the Gospel to them

Yours In Christ, Eternal Wisdom,
StMichael

I don't see the need to place stickers and deface Scripture. It seems you are just drawing attention to yourselves, and, in contrariety to your aims, drawing attention to Scripture, offending the sensibilities of even non-Christans and enabling others to become sympathetic of them. It seems also rather redundant to do so. If it were false, it ought to be obvious to most people and/or easily disproven, and its falsity would inevitably lead to its demise.

Yours In Christ, Eternal Wisdom,
StMichael

You still don't get it.

To many of us the bible isn't "scripture." It's a disgusting, violent, homophobic myth that has been venerated for far too long as somehow "holy."  Throughout the last 2000 years it has influenced many to commit atrocities similar to those found in its disgusting writings.

I can do anything I want to my copy of the Holey Buybull.  It's none of your business. 

I don't have time or I'd look up and post the link to that site where every one of these claims is backed up with quotes from the bible.  Help!

The fact that the bible contains approving mentions of all these things is useful to us because it points up the hypocisy of those who would try to tell us that the bible is a foundation for moral authority.  In fact, morals in modern secular society have advanced to a point where we can look at the bible and see it for what it is - a manual for disseminating a specific religion through the most barbaric means possible, moral considerations quite aside.

Things like drugs and homosexuality are on the list because these are the very things that bible thumpers rail against, all unknowing (or uncaring) that their most holy book contains passages approving of them.  Hypocrisy! 

I can see how you would say that some of those things are justified by Scripture, but I think you overreach enormously in many of those categories as I have outlined. Nobody answered, likewise, my statement about how this is really detrimental to your cause in the end.

Lastly, when I said, you are defacing "Scripture" I did not mean that YOU accepted Scripture as true. I merely indicated that is what you were doing - you were defacing my particular group's sacred writings, aka scriptures. I understand that you hate it, but I see no reason to make many of your claims about it (the homosexuality, drugs, ect. which are clearly not supported therein). Again, if the homosexual community got their hands on those passages, I am sure they would heckle the bible-thumpers with them. But they haven't. Why not?

It might not be my business what you do with a copy of the Bible you bought at the store, but it is my business when you pursue irrational hatreds of other people, just furthering the very problem you claim to solve for.

Yours In Christ, Eternal Wisdom,
StMichael

You shouldn't have to look up immorality in the Buybull. St. Michael knows what's in it. He has just explained it away to silence the cognitive dissonance in his mind. He's far more culpable for his position than some poor sap on the street who hasn't even read the thing.

I've read it multiple times. At one point, I had much of it committed to memory. I've spent the last twenty years getting it out of my head because it is quite simply one of the most vile books ever written.

I've never done this before, but here...have some quotes:

"Tolerance is anathema to devout divinity-centered religionists..."--Dr. Albert Ellis, from "The Case Against Religiosity", published by American Atheist Press.

"There is not one verse in the Bible inhibiting slavery, but many regulating it. It is not then, we conclude, immoral." -- Rev. Alexander Campbell

"My correspondent thinks with Mr. Jefferson, that Jehovah has no attributes that will harmonize with slavery; and that all men are born free and equal. Now, I say let him throw away his Bible as Mr. Jefferson did his and then they will be fit companions. But never disgrace the Bible by making Mr. Jefferson its expounder, nor Mr. Jefferson by deriving his sentiments from it. Mr. Jefferson did not bow to the authority of the Bible, and on this subject I do not bow to him." -- Rev. Thornton Stringfellow, D.D., Scriptural View of Slavery

"If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's Okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite." -- Dennis McKinsey, of the newsletter Biblical Errancy

"Most people are bothered by those passages of scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I DO understand." -- Mark Twain

"The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history."--Noam Chomsky

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.” - Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), Russian-born American scientist and prolific writer

“Christianity is the most perverted system ever shone to man.”  - Thomas Jefferson

“Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.” - Voltaire

"The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization." -R.A. Wilson

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” – Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.” - Thomas Paine

I'm not defacing it for fun. i'm defacing it so when someone looks at me reading the stupid thing, people can know that i don't believe any of the hogwash in the bible.

Yes but when people see you reading those things they dont' assume you believe whats in it. I want to show other people that i don't blieve in the crap. And I don't know how you can say dawkins stuff is hogwash. When its based on fact and evidence. Something the bible is lacking eminsly. I know you are going to come back with but it does have evidence and blah blah blah.  Same tired theistic crap everyone on this board hears over and over. Has been debunked by people on this same board and yet is still repeated.

This is besides the point. Its my book. I can do what i want with it. Its not something that is special and that should be defaced. Therefore, i see nothing wrong with it. I would deface any other thing that i see so much hagwash in as the bible. Such as the quran or anything else.