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LOSING MY RELIGION
The Independent
|January 11, 2025
Sara Maitland shares how the Bible - with its fabulous variety of genres - influenced her writing and self-understanding
The Bible is one of those books, and there are others, that everyone thinks they know. In almost every case - from deranged fundamentalists to raving neo-atheists, including me they are wrong about what is in it. This is partly because it is so large it is hard to "know" it all and partly because none of us come to it clean. It has been so used and abused, and has so permeated our language, our culture and our civic lives that for better or worse it is a book of everybody’s lifetime.
This story is from the January 11, 2025 edition of The Independent.
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