first day of class

So I must say that I am quite pleased with this first day of class. I was dreading this course to be honest, so much work and such a touchy subject, but after seeing the other people in the course, and listening to Professor Sexson I am happy I signed up.

Now to start with my journey through the bible. Like I said in class I "read" it before, but professor Sexson was right, i didn't strive to fully comprehend everything. The story behind this is fairly simple really. I am an atheist...well I am more of a Daoist, but i don't believe in a deity or that the universe has any interest in me whatsoever, so for simplicity I just say I'm an atheist. Now i understand some people need religion, and if you believe in something and arent hurting anyone, then who am I to say that you're wrong. Well some people don't particularly feel the same way and I was getting quite a bit of flack simple for not believing in what they did. So one day I simply decided to pick up a king james bible and read it cover to cover. It certainly made it easier when people quoted scripture at me to point out counter examples from the same book.
but yes, it will be interesting to see what i get out of it when i'm looking at it in an academic sense.