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¿Question #770?
EndersGame: How much of the Bible have you read?

maartendemont: Quite a lot. Know your enemy that's my motto.
Phil Fleischmann: All of it. Of course, it's the Jewish Bible, which some of you might call "The Old Testament".
Woelf: Enough to know that it doesn't say a lot of the crap that far too many people use as justification to be hateful assholes.
Narlgoth: A little, but I just couldn't get into it. Its a little too preachy.
Bob Moron: None
Riddlebox85: Proud Atheist
Spirit of 70: All of it.
Jatoha: I'd say around 75% of it
pwilz: A few of the Old Testament books. I've definitely read Revealation. Some of the Gospels. I keep meaning to read it all, but I have not gotten around to that yet.
vandemonium: Is that some new best seller? I'll have to check it out.
fullerbd: a few sentences here and there
Kobold Curry Chef: Very very little.
jurjan: just genesis
danweasel: All of it
ChukLife: Not much. I skimmed through most to the juicy bits.
Polgara: didn't get past genesis
consolewa: Enough to know it isn't worth basing my spiritual life on.
BuddhaPhi: You mean there's only one?
beri: All of it, cover-to-cover. I'm not Christian, but I thought it deserved a read.
bigbadsteve: all of it
chockle: cover to cover x 2
Muzza: enough
kapnkrunch: All of it, cover-to-cover.
Sceadeau: leviticus is my favorite bit, otherwise bits and pieces
DHEK: Probably just two-fifths. A lot of it is long and boring.
fxer: Genesis and the Gospel of Hernando, near the back.
spartax: All of it.
jeffwolfe: All of it.
Penguin_Hatcher: absolutely none. does that make you a bad person in your eyes?
Kibbersdog: All of it.
Revdyer: All
POvidiusNaso: Probably around 1%
tomlynch: 42%
Leo H: Most of the Old Testament. It's my favourite.
HScottBuck: 27.43%
stealeydan: a bit
dmomo: First few pages.
holywolfman: 66 books of it!
roman1967: Most of it.
BigZaphod: The odd chapter here and there.
dralius: which one?
WatchmanX2000: 85%
dietevil: enough
TheDS: enough to know it's pretty boring without someone to tell you where all the good parts are.
hacksword: None
janiera: a little
Favre4MVP: All of it
LemonyFresh: Maybe 12 pages in toto
davebo: all of it
Timothius: All of it, several times over.
vetinari7878: Most of it.
DaGen: not too much.. Line numbers got on my nerves
Loquutus: Most of it. It's drivel.
Unitbuster: The title. Oh, and the first three words in the Bible as well ("Genuine Morroco Leather")
scubadawg1: Very little (unfortunately)
ssmooth: I'd guess about 80%. Not all at once.
xlorp: Both Old and New Testaments in entirety, but not as much of the Apocrypha as I'd like.
ststrat: all of it, several translations
Cerebus: All of it.
notquitekarpov: less than 1% - look up stuff only
scriptorum: 3.2%
Mikebegeta: recently only about 1/3
sourwyrm: most of it
dakarp: A bunch.
Karlsen: Less than I have of Lord of the Rings
Lord_Prussian: All of it once, most of it a couple times or more
The Unbeliever: 42
familygaming: Every single word. (Cover to cover March-May 2002)
Randy Cox: Well, in high school, when I signed up for only the easiest English classes, I ended up in "Bible as Lit" and had to read much of the old testament. In church as a kid, I guess I read some of the new testament. I've not read much since gaining majority, though, if any.
puffinge: Not much, and none in the last 30 years or so. I have a natural sense of ethics.
meshuggener: Every god-damn word.
skrutsch: At least 80%, but not straight through. (I did a huge study a few years ago.)
ThatFalafelGirl: what i needed for confirmation class, some years ago.
EYE of NiGHT: Enough to know it's crap.
dpuskas73: All of it, including apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, and non-canonical materials.
WasQ: the cover
gnomehome: *t h e B I B L E* - voila, all 8 letters read
Nomadik: the majority of it, several times
heli: lots
2amp: all of it
MisterCranky: That bit about so-and-so begat so-and-so. You know that means they were all rutting like bunnies, right?
tram10014: I've gotten through the first couple pages. My mind wanders.
thoia: Most of it.
midgetsrawk: too much...
kimapesan: Genesis, 1/2 Exodus, Jonah, Job, Ruth, 4 gospels, Acts, Ecclesiastes
isolated: All of the New Testament. And some of the Old.
AlorielLelyn: Enough to see that it's a story told by people that has been glorified into a religious text.
Oborro: most
hibikir: All of it
buergerberatung: maybe half in school. one has to know his enemies :-)
Cavedog_pdx: I would guesstimate 40-50% but not chronologically.
Mike A: All of it.
davedanger: all
UhhhClem: An awful lot, but apart from Job and Lamentations it's not all that. What a freaking disaster St. Paul was.
tragicpoet: Only the book of Job, class assignment
onky: Too much
jellospike: 10-15%, I think.
BaSL: 5%?
alfredhw: All of it, at least once
Dave: Most of it. One of my all-time favorite works of fiction.
rochs77: I always tell myself I'm going to read it (for personal betterment more than religious reasons), but never make it through Genesis. Puts me to sleep, kind of like the band.
fsumarc: Most of it
GuyHill: All of it
Blackwind: most of it...more of Enders dumb questions.
Grimwold: All of it over the past few years.
DangerMouse: Lots more than I'll admit to.
sumo: A few pages
djlg: Too much.
netfilterz: Like, the first sentence...
djflippy: Naught
TragicHeroBC: Most of it at some point or the other.
louiseh: Several books. It doesn't make much sense
sdownin: Enough to know that - strictly judging it as a work of prose - it's some pretty miserable storytelling.
Ludocrazy: All of it
BobDodgerBlue: All of it
Eric Haas: Most of it.
HappyProle: The entire thing (King James Version), cover to cover. There's a lot of nonsense in it you know.
chaddyboy_2000: I wish that I could motivate myself to do more reading on my own, but I have read a fair amount through bible studies that I've participated in. I've read all of Genesis and Exodus, but I'd like to do a lot more New Testament readings.
Shakar: Not much.
ValJor: Not much. I tried many times but when it gets to that "A begets B, who begets C, who begets D, etc", it was so boring that I just gave up. I would love to read more of it, but it is really too dry for my taste
Flyspeck23: Too much.
snoozefest: very little
Pseudo Nymh: All of it. I used to read the whole thing every year. Haven't done it for years.
CDRodeffer: All of it
TD2008YDS: overall, probably 25% here and there
Denise: All of it. Preacher's kid.
skelebone: I memorized verses by rote when I was younger, but I've not read much.
queequeg: all of it
ynnen: Very little.
Jim_P: A couple of psalms, I think
jttm: A page? Maybe 2. I'm not Christian
CortexBomb: Really hard call, I never have sat down and read it straight through, but I've read many segments of it at different times...perhaps 50%?