I find I don't have much english lit. Culture, especially compered to my other friends (Other Isa and Tanya are giant bookworms. Bookworms the size of those things in Dunes!) but I still seem to have more litterature to speak of then the average american/canadian. Which is a little worrysome.

When I was younger I actually read the bible. I'm a big advocate of the *Don't knock it until you tried it!* philosophy. Unfortunatly, if anything the bible make me less sympatic to organized religion. I`'s a weird book - you can see where they remove or mixed some of the texts. Some texts are pretty inspiring but others don't make any sense. Not to mention the whole thing, interpreted badly leads to a lot of abuse (abuse of women, abuse of homosexuals, abuse of other religions, abuse of other cultures, abuse of jews). So I don't know. It makes a good story, but people forget that the bible proposes massive metaphores. They take the stories at face value, when clearly, if this would be a dead religion, they would be seen as myths. Aka, take them as an uplifting and explanatory metaphors and stories, but don't believe things that make no sense, on the realm of physics. I think that is the thing that bugs me about books. People take the written word too litterally.