That a lot, even by Christian standards. Most people in my church growing up had only read it cover to cover a couple times. The main consumption was cherry picked scriptures read in church to support whatever point they were trying to make at the time.
I have a degree in theology/philosophy. I did "Christian" work for 16 years. I am a convinced atheist.
This is making me think that maybe they *should* get kids to read the Bible in school, we’d get more atheists that way. Just kidding of course, that’d be a huge waste of school time… better to just teach kids critical thinking skills.
critical thinking & problem solving skills are everything a human needs. teach them to read one language. teach them basic math. teach them critical thinking & problem solving. give them trade skills. get out of the way. people, on the whole, are amazing.