GQ magazine puts Bible on list of classic books not worth reading, incurs the wrath of Christians

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7. Oh my goodness!

It's impossible to exaggerate the influence that the Bible, particularly the KJV, has had on Western culture. For that reason alone I disagree with GQ's suggestion that it's a "don't read." No course in Western World Literature would omit consideration of the Bible. And there is some lovely stuff mixed in there with the Biblical BS. Song of Solomon, for example, is far sexier than anything in Shades of Grey. I also think that as thinking atheist it's important for me to be fortified against the Christian cherry-picking and proliferation of outright lies as to what the Bible says. You don't have to read Shakespeare either, but . . .