The main reason I'm an atheist

[TheRocketSurgeon]

The Bible is a book. It's a book in the same way any other anthology is a book, you semantics-mongering little smear.

I feel I should add that pointing out that the Bible is an anthology, and not a single book written-all-at-once, does not help his case. The fact that its claims about time and authorship have been heavily challenged by modern (Christian!) scholarship shows that it's something which was constructed by humans, over time, and that the times being claimed were not the times of actual writing. (Things like referencing cities that did not yet exist.) We also see the problem of the progress the Jesus myth made as it evolved from whatever its origins were (Q document?) to a slightly magic man who shows the way to god, in Mark, to increasing levels of magic and divinity through the penning of John, by which time he's God Incarnate.

These are things which are obvious to those of us who look at your book with an eye that is not covered by rose-colored glasses. You should take yours off and really LOOK. The notion that there exists such a thing as sola scriptura is only to say that you have accepted that the Orthodox church's domination of the myriad religious traditions that called themselves Christianity is the One True Faith™, and nothing more. We not only reject this claim, we find it laughable.

Thus, we respond to bald assertions of its Universal Truth™ with derision and contempt.