The bible... why take it seriously?

[ShaMan]

Agreed. And that is why it's so dangerous - It's subjective.

It's interesting that you mention subjectivity, because for Kierkegaard the existential crises that promoted his 'leap to faith' occurred when he realised subjectivity is ultimately all we have (everything I know, even reading a scientific gauge, comes to me subjectively); we can never strip out subjectivity.

Yes, but the church dares to impose its subjective position onto others as if that position were the only currently valid one, and one to which those others must comply. That's the dangerous part.