I wouldn’t be a Christian

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Well sure, you can go through and come up with tangential sanitised interpetrations that end up making every story in the bible entirely fictional; but at that point, it’s not even a religion anymore, is it? It’s just a book of supposed wisdom. You may as well treat every holy book in the same way and not be religious at all, and assume they have nothing factual to say about any hypothetical creator.

I find it strange that Yahweh would choose to make himself appear to be a monster all the way through the book, and then expects you to interpret it so that he’s actually a good guy. Why would you even begin with the assumption that he’s a good guy, when he’s telling you endlessly that he is not? Imagine his frustration.

This is all reinforcing the basic premise that religion is interested in learning lessons from stories, it’s not interested in facts. And it’s quite possible to learn those lessons without being religious.