An interesting new book was just released. I received my copy in the mail yesterday. It is based on many non-religious sources of inspiration around the world to produce a "bible" that is 100% secular.
While reading it I did find that it has a "feel" very similar to the bible in that it is written in chapter and verse with lots of metaphors and storytelling.
I haven't read it much yet due to not having time, but I did read a few pages and thumbed through it a bit.
It's a thick book... just like the chrisitian bible.
Here is more information about it from Amazon.com:
The Good Book: A Humanist Bible by A. C. Grayling ( Hardcover - Mar 29, 2011) Description: Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, the breadth of knowledge, the literary skill, and-yes-the audacity to conceive of a powerful, secular alternative to the Bible. But that is exactly what A.C. Grayling has done by creating a non-religious Bible, drawn from the wealth of secular literature and philosophy in both Western and Eastern traditions, using the same techniques of editing, redaction, and adaptation that produced the holy books of the Judaeo-Christian and Islamic religions. The Good Book consciously takes its design and presentation from the Bible, in its beauty of language and arrangement into short chapters and verses for ease of reading and quotability, offering to the non-religious seeker all the wisdom, insight, solace, inspiration, and perspective of secular humanist traditions that are older, far richer and more various than Christianity. Organized in 12 main sections----Genesis, Histories, Widsom, The Sages, Parables, Consolations, Lamentations, Proverbs, Songs, Epistles, Acts, and the Good----The Good Book opens with meditations on the origin and progress of the world and human life in it, then devotes attention to the question of how life should be lived, how we relate to one another, and how vicissitudes are to be faced and joys appreciated. Incorporating the writing of Herodotus and Lucretius, Confucius and Mencius, Seneca and Cicero, Montaigne, Bacon, and so many others, The Good Book will fulfill its audacious purpose in every way.