bible (readership). What is more telling is how the religious or faithful reacted to GQ's announcement. What hypocrites. I guarantee you that if you went out and did a study (where participants were protected / shielded 100% privacy in their answers), the GQ conclusions would match the results of the study. And besides, everybody has the right to their own opinions, eh?
However, what I am tired of, is that so many have claimed to read the bible from cover to cover repeatedly, and that they are the 'experts', and that they know best on how to interpret what they have read. But so many people like this have used the words of the bible, manipulated in such a way to justify their idiotic claims and statements.
This abuse of the bible, of taking a bit here and a bit there, is done solely to justify their actions (cherry picking). I guarantee you that if you had 100 people read a series of passages in the bible (the same ones of course from person to person), you are going to have 100 different interpretations of these passages. Many persons have devoted their entire lives to study of the 'written word', and still don't 'know it all'.
Our television culture and the unfettered capitalism (ugly sin of greed) has made it more easier to abuse the interpretation of the bible, in order to misguide others, regardless of the warnings issued about misinterpretation, thus, misleading others astray, a big no no.