#for a while my family's churches were even anti-ipad bibles

[gxlden-angels]

I know there's a common thing of "christians are christians because they haven't actually read the bible" but I actually grew up being told to read the entire bible once a year once I learned to read. I even had a NIV kids' one with a checklist that had you read a certain amount per day. I only ever read my daily amount when forced to by my youth group or family members that did read the whole thing once per year and even then I usually faked it until they left me alone

#and yes my family did believe the conspiracy that NIV bibles were deleting verses since they knew kids would read it over KJV #and they'd grow up reading said bible without learning all of Jesus's miracles or something #turns out #said verses were not missing but put into footnotes since they might not have actually been in the original writings #a lot of my older family dropped out of school p early #so the bible was one of the few things they could readily get and read #and they knew someone would teach them if they couldn't read a part of it #my grandfather was the first to graduate highschool and he was the 13th child out of 14 who lived #my father was first to graduate from college #my mom was the first to finish medical school #so I got super lucky to have family around me that valued education like that #tho they started to get very extreme after that and pushed me towards more and more academic things until I was ready to yeet myself #so reading the bible had a special place in my family both from the fundamentalist standpoint and from an academic standpoint #they were poor black folk in rural NJ GA and FL so #not much to do but have babies do manual labor and go to church especially back then #for a while my family's churches were even anti-ipad bibles #until they learned they could have the audio playing so the older folks that couldn't read all that well #either from lack of education or declining eye site #n e ways I hope y'all enjoyed my ramblings about intersectionality and bible reading #I did attempt it once but got super uncomfortable reading about sex and stuff like that in middle school #and started having terrible intrusive thoughts so I stopped #I also recognize that it's a Jewish tradition to read the entire Torah once a year I believe #And it resets either during Yom Kippur or Rosh Hashanah #my jewish found fam can correct me on that later #but I get wanting to read your holy book to make sure you know what's up and refresh your knowledge #idk maybe I'll write an undergraduate thesis about how the bible comforts black americans as a concept rather than a religion #ex christian #religious trauma