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Actually, I'll follow up again on this because I agree with Greg above but from a directly opposite approach and reason.

Quite frankly, I saw the attribution of the author and figured it was some dude along the lines of every other dude who's designed a year-long reading plan and ignored it.

You've probably given Robert Roberts more airtime than a small attribution of credit at the bottom of the plan itself. I'd have never even looked him up but for your posturing that a "cult leader" designed a really neat and workable reading plan for the bible.

And I'd certainly prefer a "cult leader" of the past over some of the more popular "cult leaders" of our present age (Dobson, Falwell, Robertson, LaHey, etc etc ad nauseam). At least the former is dead and gone and is part of history where he can be studied at arm's length. We can only hope the rest go that way sooner than later.

If you are so arrogant to believe that only Christians use this site or read your bible, you have a lot to learn about the world. Some of us on the other side of the playground are even more prepared to study, learn, and utilize your scriptures than many of your own kind. So while you're out playing in Wikipedia for the spiritual missile crisis that will bombard some newbie to your religion, some of us are actually on day five of reading the bible.

And if you'd like to discuss that somewhere, I'm all ears. But this is just nonsense to get in the way of digging into the bible, and I believe it is a great example of what Tillich would call "demonic."

I think you missed the point. In fact, I know you did.

Aside from that, one person's "cult leader" is another person's spiritual mentor. I recommend reading the bible and leave labeling of prejudices to those who don't.

Are you reading the bible or getting hung up on incidentals here? The reading plan itself has no moral connotation, no addition or subtraction from the material itself, and doesn't carry some kind of boogieman spell to get you while you sleep if you use it.

It's reading the bible. Do it or don't do it. But complaining about the 'who' in the design is a waste of time.