What many commenters are straying from is the fact that Graham wrote this article as a review of the work of another author, not as a discussion about the Bible's truth or otherwise.
He is outlining Clarke's claims that this is a fine authoritative textbook for creative English writing style.
This greatest work of fiction ever produced was the basis for the emergence of modern society whose mores are shaped by it.
However, it is important to understand that many religious writings exist which revolve around the basic tenets of behaviour, thought and attitude which are regarded as desirable by many of the world's societies.

As Graham points out,"Clarke shows how the Bible is so interwoven into our culture that without it you can't understand much serious classical literature.
And in language context is everything. While words have a meaning of their own, this is always modified and modulated by the words and ideas in which they are wrapped and surrounded."

It is the use of language which is admired, not the rationale behind the writings which were penned hundreds of years after the death of the alleged Christ.
The writer confirms that "Clarke's central message is that you don't have to be a Christian for the bible to matter, it is a matter of literacy, not religion."

Beautiful descriptive writing exists in many works, including our own J.L. Cuthbertson's 'Australian Sunrise' in which he refers to "the lustrous purple blackness of the soft Australian night....", touching words from an insired heart, surely.

According to the Catholic Encyclopaedia,
"....The New Testament was not written all at once. The books that compose it appeared one after another in the space of fifty years, i.e. in the second half of the first century. Written in different and distant countries and addressed to particular Churches,...."

See: http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=8427

Yes Ponder, context is everything.
Graham is of course a Christian - he once accused me of being christophobic (whatever that is!) for my relentless criticism of Christian-ISM.
The title of Graham's review is the Bible for atheists and secularists.

Graham, the author of the book being reviewed (Clarke), and almost all Christians especially those that subscribe to and promote exoteric Christianity, like to pretend that because they subscribe to and prattle on about the Christian "creator"-God, the Bible and "Jesus" that they are committed to a religious world-view, as distinct from the secular world-view that informs or patterns our culture altogether.
They even erroneously pretend that it is superior to the secular world-view, and that it thus offers a way, indeed the ONLY way, to counter and even change the now dominant secular paradigm.

Such a presumption is of course a delusion, a conceit.

Meanwhile this essay describes how we are all trapped in the doubt-mind of the now world dominant reductionist world-view (or paradigm) of scientism/secularism. This includes ALL of the usual academic and/or "theological" advocates of conventional exoteric religiosity.
http://www.beezone.com/AdiDa/nirvanasara/chapter1.html

After reading this article I bought Clarke's book and have since read it.

Like Graham, I highly recommend it.