The BBC have published Richard Dawkins' perspective on the plans to distribute the King James Bible within schools. Dawkins has the view that as a literary work, the Bible offers a vast amount of linguistic and clutural infomation and that reading from it will devlop your understanding of the English language.
However controversially, Dawkins says that the Bible cannot be understood as a moral guide to behaviour and therefore that any rational reader, of sound mind, should come to the conclusion that it is an integral work of fiction.
"Some phrasiology from the KJB: No peace for the wicked (Isaiah 57:21), The blind leading the blind (Matthew 15:13) and God forbid (Romans 3:6)"
He comments on the skillful allegories and allusions in the King James Bible which akin to that of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
I will leave our perspective open, but the article is a fascinating atheist and linguistic interpretation on the use of this powerful narrative in society.
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