Do you think you'd still be a believer if the bible were more pleasant/accurate?

[drfuzzy]

Um . . . (shudder) . . . that's a definite, well, probably yes for me.  I mean, I was so brainwashed that it took real nastiness in the Pentecostal church (think Westboro Baptist - violent upbringing, huge judgmental church attitudes, hypocrisy, seeing preacher after preacher raping kids and having affairs) PLUS growing up gay in such an environment, and then education - - before my brainwashing began to slip.  
    If the environment had been positive and pleasant I don't think I would have ever questioned whether god might exist.

I still like reading the Tao te Ching and some Buddhist teachings . . . if the Bible had been closer to those . . . I'd probably still be a theist.