Is it odd that I'm a Deist and read both the Bible and God Delusion? They're next to each other on my shelf?

Question

za: If you are proselytizing by that comment, don't or the other way toward Atheism, don't.

Everyone else: I have a great many Anthropology books, because it was my major. I also have the Mayan Popol Vuh (the Mayan Bible if you'd like), books on ancient Egyptian Myths, native American Myths.

Answer 1

I think it means you are probably intelligent and open-minded. I hope that's what it means because my bookshelf has a mixture of things on it too.

Answer 2

I don't think so - but then I face the same dilemma.  :)

Answer 3

"They're next to each other on my shelf?" Careful! You could start a house fire!!!   :)

I am a Pagan and I am reading Carl Jung's Synchronicity, the Koran, and a book on statistical coincidence simultaneously (I stack them by the door because I read on the balcony).

One of the signs of intelligence is the ability to hold more than one contrary idea in your mind at once.

Answer 4

Not really. I'm a Christian, and own a copy of the Satanic Bible, as well as many other non-Christian and anti-Christian texts. I have books on atheism. Any personal library worth having will contain books from many different perspectives.

Answer 5

Rejoice that you have both books, and shelves to put them on.  But why stop at Deism - go all the way!

Answer 6

Nope.

I know a person who can beat that. She has a copy of the Bible next to Hitler's Mein Kampf

Answer 7

I own a bible and a koran

Both are next to each other, along side 'The Origin Of Species', 'The God Delusion', etc.

Answer 8

It' not odd. It's pretty typical of most deists to have both theistic and non/atheistic books on their shelves.

Answer 9

Add the satanic bible to the collection, just to confuse visitors.

Answer 10

A fellow deist!

Doesn't sound odd to me, but then I like to hear all perspectives on things.  "Feed your head" in the words of Grace Slick.

Answer 11

Not odd at all. The Bible, Al-Qur'an and Bullfinch's Mythology are side by side on my shelves of books.