Bible reading

[drfuzzy]

Are you kidding? 

Nope.

"Interpretation" is the whole problem.  "Interpretation" is why there are thousands of schisms in Protestant Christianity alone.  Funny how every preacher is so damned sure he has the "right" interpretation.  Funny how no god ever, ever shows up to say "this guy has it right".

Is there a reason that I should find schisms within Protestant Christianity a problem?

Do you realize that by referencing "Protestant Christianity" you're acknowledging that there's a set of core beliefs that we agree on, and the disagreements are on lesser details?   

Any reasonably intelligent 10-year-old can write a clear paragraph about something that they want. 

If you want it distilled into a clear paragraph, read a creed, like the Apostle's Creed.

But GOD always speaks in MYSTERIOUS WAYS and GOD's stories always are up for "interpretation".   That's enough evidence for me - that alone - for "god's stories" being "human fantasies used to control people". 

First, your skepticism isn't problematic for me. Funny how you guys think we're all trying to convert you.

Second, why would something written by humans, to control humans, be difficult for humans to understand? You don't seem to think about what you're saying.

I hear the Apostle's Creed every week.  Since I don't believe that the God they're yammering at exists, I don't consider it relevant.  So, the Bible was written by humans to control humans.  We agree on that.  So, therefore, there isn't a touch of deity anywhere in it, it proves nothing, and preachers can say that it says anything that pops into their empty little heads.  I'm down with that.  I don't see why anyone, then, would follow such a book.  (And I have most of it memorized.  I wish I could erase my brain.)  But - to each their own.  If you think the evil book of fairy tales is fun, good for you.