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

[Wyrd of Gawd]

A thought occurred to me.  What if the bible were far more pleasant?  Instead of stories of Adam and Eve getting kicked out of the Garden of Eden, of God flooding the world, and of Hebrews stoning people... you'd find stories of God actually showing what we consider kindness.  No laws against working on Sunday, or disbelievers going to hell, or eating shellfish, or gay people. 

Take out some of the scientific inaccuracies, the sexism, the homophobia, the genocidal rage, etc... and replace it with more pleasant things.  For example the ideas of feeding the poor being important, while also allowing gay people to get married, being against slavery, etc...  Instead of saying the world is only 6000 years old, it might make no claim to the age of the Earth.  

Do you think you'd still be a believer if the bible were more pleasant and less inaccurate?

I'm inclined to think that I would be.  Obviously there would still be a lack of evidence.  But I think most people believe because they already find the bible rather pleasant.  They don't like the idea of gay people having sex, so they aren't bothered by the idea that God forbids gay people having sex.  They can accept it with ease because they are comfortable with it.  I'm willing to admit that if I was far more comfortable with it, I think I'd still be a believer.  It's not the only reason I disbelieve now, of course.  But take the inaccuracies out too, and I doubt I'd still be an Atheist even without proof of god.  I'd probably be like many theists are now, and not need proof, other than my own confirmation bias.  I'd like to think I'm more intelligent than that, but I don't think that I am.

The biblical stories are designed to teach obedience and belief without exception.  The God character was simply the series of men who ruled the dominant Middle Eastern Empire at any given time.  Their word was absolute, except for the rare occasions when people flipped them off.  

That system is still in operation today.  If you are an average person you obey your leader and follow his laws just as the characters in the biblical stories followed the God character and his laws.  We consider some of the biblical laws to be asinine; a lot of our secular laws are also asinine.  The God character told his minions to run over the hill and kill people they didn't even know.  Our leaders tell us to do the same thing and we gladly do it without a second thought.  When we break a rule and don't get caught we "sin", such as running a stop sign or speeding on an empty road.  

If we curse our leaders (our gods) we will get punished if we live in the wrong place at the wrong time, such as in Thailand.  They get ticked off when people make fun of their silly king.  There are Bible stories about that.  

A lot of the biblical stories are designed to show people how to make it through the day without getting killed for breaking the bigwig's rules.  

Learn from observing other peoples' mistakes because it may save your neck.  That's the real purpose of the biblical stories.