My mother's mother was kidnapped from her community as a child by the government for being mixed race and given to a Catholic boarding school to be raised as a domestic servant as part of the Australian eugenics plan known as "breeding out the black" My mother was one of those cherry pick a bit of everything from any religion because it sounded right to her types, both devout Catholic but also a little Buddhist zain pagan droid whatever else. My father's parents were Jehovah's witnesses, my father had very traumatic experiences as a child and put a lot of the blame for why his parents could be so abusive on the JWs and religion in general. So my father raised me anti theist while I was attending meetings with his parents and my mother would take me to every different church mosque shine temple etc. she could. Personally I believe the universe itself is alive and we are all part of it and any further explanation would be pointless because it's literally beyond our comprehension as human beings to even imagine what God actually is.

Participants are welcome to read aloud from any English-language translation they choose. I tend to read from NASB 2020. We started out reading the book of Luke, and are now reading the book of Acts. In general we’re reading to grow our understanding of who God is and what the scripture means. Reading for truth, basically. Skeptics and believers in other religions are very welcome to join as long as their focus is also on trying in good faith to figure out what the Bible itself is actually saying and how the god of the Bible is being described.