Cosmologist Lawrence Krauss: Religion could be largely gone in a generation

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49. They use Bible verses.

Of course, they don't just toss the Bible verses around scattershot and uninterpreted like Biblical literalists do.

That I would just find annoying, as an atheist.

Instead, they carefully chose specific Biblical passages, and breathe life into those Bible verses to give them meaning and context, so that even an atheist like me can begin to grasp the meaning of their Scriptural references.

They treat specific Scriptural passages as something to be savored, rather than simple random throw away lines.

That strikes me as a more thoughtful approach, and an approach that is as capable of speaking to the lives of atheists as it is to the lives of Christians.

It's an approach to Scripture that informs, rather than one that pushes folks away.