The Book of Mormon

I might be wrong, but to me Mormons are a rare thing in the UK in fact. I don't think I have ever met one. I know some one who knows some who is Mormon though. To me and to a friend I just spoke to they are similar to Jehovahs witnesses'.
Now why would I say that, i don't know any as I have just admitted so perhaps this image of Mormons I have, is televisions fault.
Or is it this thing that I touched upon in a previous post, that Mormons because they are a smaller branch of religion are considered less credible. As if one book is less credible than the others because of the people that read it.
Is it religious snobbery? I don't know.
Anyway back to the book, I ordered one from the link that's on the FREE BOOKS page above. I didn't see in the small print that they hand deliver it to you and stop by for a chat so that should be interesting.

The book of Mormon was written by an American called Joseph Smith and first published in 1830.

Mandukya Upanishad: Ancient Sanskrit on the nature of reality

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I am going to give a bit of far eastern religion I go. This my reading for tonight, it's only 24 pages long and seems quite interesting from what I have read so far. I will be back to update.
Oh and if you want to read it too, head over to www.holybooks.com and download it and many more books as free PDFs , yes free!


Holybooks.com you have saved me a lot of time and money so thank you I will definitely donate.

The Bible and the Quran / my religious backstory

***UPDATE***

Save your self some money (unlike me) and download the
Bible (PDF.) for free! HERE
OR The Quran(PDF.)  HERE.

So I am at my first experiment. The experiment came about because of a passing comment to my boyfriend who is an absolute atheist who can not understand why in this day and age people still believe in gods. I said that we should pick a religious book and read it if we have nothing to fear, surprisingly he agreed! So I said I would first read the bible , as I have a few christian friends and I am often putting Christianity down, he picked current hot potato ; the Quran. They are the big two at the moment, and they are closely linked. My knowledge of the Quran and the Bible is that they both originate from the same source, yet the Quran was written by the prophet Mohamed and Bible is a collection of writings written by several prophets.

The experiment

Welcome to my new blog which I ultimately entitled "Atheist Experiment." I struggled even naming the blog because I didn’t know whether I positioned myself as an atheist or an agnostic as ultimately I sway between wanting to believe and absolute belief that god cannot and does not exist.
Definitions according to Oxford Dictionary online.

Definitions:
Agnostic

Pronunciation:/agˈnɒstɪk/

noun

• a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God.

Atheist

Pronunciation:/ˈeɪθɪɪst/

noun

• a person who does not believe in the existence of God or gods:he is a committed atheist

The Experiment.


The experiment is simple. All you need is time, access to religious books and an open mind. The experiment is to read as many religious books as possible in order to gain knowledge to decide for yourself whether or not there is a god. You may at this point place yourself as a strong atheist, that being that you undoubtedly believe that god does not exist. So you may ask yourself why bother reading and of these books, that can be nothing more than works of fiction. And this may be true, but in order to understand the world and those around us, it is helpful to know what other think and why they think that. It is also useful if you are going to refute something that you have at least read the thing you are trying to refute. As an aside to this comment, it is good to note that if you do read any religious text, make notes of things you question, yet read the whole book first, and then review what it is you question afterwards.
Now, here is the slight problem:
Religious books are not as rare as you may think. According to wikipedia the following are classed as scripture/ religious texts/ holy books etc.