(September 10, 2012 at 3:45 pm)greneknight Wrote: the Bible isn't so important.
This.
Also, I don't know if this has been pointed out yet, but there is nothing in the conception of god (as creator, maintainer or w/e) that has any moral guiding characteristics. It doesn't seem unlikely that it was shoehorned into ancient ethics to save from complete skepticism. Hmm.
Religion is an attempt to answer the philosophical questions of the unphilosophical man.