How can you prove that the gospel of Mark is not the "word of god"?

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What would we expect from a god communicating with us?

This heap of shit? That's a pretty lousy god and some crummy expectations.

Personally I'd expect direct communication, requiring no other medium, and without any chance of misinterpretation. Not some bag of bollocks book written by a load of numpties, with other asswipes telling me what god "meant to say". Everything about it is truly laughable.

Hey, lay off, pal. This Universal Truth is so important that it can only be entrusted to a game of Cosmic Telephone.

Besides, how else do you expect Hell to get stocked?

Funny you should mention that. Most religious stories actually read to me like a being justifying to itself the fact that it's going to be extremely cruel to a nonstop stream of its hapless creations. Like the consciousness rationalising the subconscious.