The best way way to approach the Bible or other important religious documents is to discuss the images or ideas as they naturally arise in art or music or history. It can't be taught as truth.

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book

Everyone loves the David and Goliath story, but if Goliath had slain David, it'd never have made the Bible.

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of mattress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.