Atheists & Agnostics

Plus, I have been an avid reader all my life. And I am pretty sure that I never really needed Bible-knowledge, neither in school nor in hobby. What little snippets of Bible-knowledge I needed for understanding the "Divine Comedy" or "Faust", I could get from the footnotes or looking up elsewhere.



The Bible has some interesting parts, like Adam&Eve, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Iob, Samson, David, Solomon, Daniel, Jesus. But you can dump pretty much the whole rest.
For example, the Deuteronomium is just a list of rules how to live your life Bronze-age-style. Nobody needs that anymore.
Or the story of Holofernes.
Or how Absolom betrayed his father King David and died in a horrible accident.
Knowledge of the mad king Ahab is only necessary because the mad captain Ahab in "Moby Dick" is a reference to him.
But have any of the psalms or of the evangelical letters in the New Testament ever made it into literature?