Literature

I have been thinking about something. And that something is the fact that your "good Christian" will tell you that she reads the Bible for inspiration and guidance. Just turn to a page in the Bible and start reading, eventually you'll get your answer, that's what your "good Christian" wil say. I totally believe that. But not, I think, for the same reasons. See I reckon that you could do the same to the same result in any particularly good book. And The Good Book is very much a good book. Do it with Homer or Shakespeare or Milton, or really any of your better books, whatever one it is you like. See, that's the strength of the Bible: it's a good book and great literature will always have that effect. That's why we read it. Or at least that's why we should read it. Going to a book, not because you like it, but because you think you should is turning reading, and study and reflection into a duty. And when it becomes a duty you start to feel weird about like you have to so everybody has to, and that causes problems. Douchbag problems.