AIBU to ask whether you own a Bible?

[BeanQuisine]

Just idle curiosity, really.

We often hear right-wingers insisting "This is a Christian country", whether we're in UK, Oz or the US etc.

So I'm wondering how many of us actually own Bibles, and whether we ever read them. I did read assorted bits of it in my youth, but don't currently own a Bible.

YABU: Whether Mumsnetters own Bibles or not is none of your business.

YANBU: It's a vaguely interesting question.

I'm going to have to read this thread, there are some cracking replies!

Self: Committed atheist, own two and a quarter (ish) bibles. The fraction's a Jefferson bible; I bought it last year out of curiosity. Will chuck it out now I remember!

I have read the entire bible (King James) four times from cover to cover. Some of the language is worth savouring, imo, and the thing is a cultural keystone so I feel I should know it. If I want to look any biblical thing up these days, though, it's so easy to do online.

I think we can call it post-Christian in the sense of “pre-Industrial/post-Industrial”. A huge phase that shaped us and where the effects can still be seen everywhere, including in secularism itself.