Why does god want to cut off women's hands?

[pocaracas]

Indeed we don't know...
So why accept any of them at all?

Off the top of my head:

In general:
- the first cause argument

Debatable

- the argument from design

Debatable

- evolutionary considerations - i.e., even if none are true, they seem to have value to humans
- hope and comfort

Agreed

Regarding Christianity:
- for the NT at least we have better information regarding the messengers. Absent an a priori rejection of god, the messengers seem sincere, sane, and lacking self-interest. That's not enough to necessitate belief, but it's more than many other religions can say.

Some of those messengers do seem like fictional characters, don't they?

- the Bible's take on mankind agrees with my observations of myself and others.

I'd wager that most religions have a take on mankind that agrees with the way people are... could it be that they all looked at how people are and then wrote it down?