My honest review of Christianity

[Aoi Magi]

It's not so nefarious, nor are we dumb and delusional. We simply tend to believe the people around us even when they are mistaken. It isn't natural for us to distrust everything and everyone and question everything.

We only learn to question when we discover things are not always as believed.

Yes you are correct, however religion is capable of brainwashing sane adults too unless they are already questioning it. For example many religious organizations will offer food and shelter to the poor and homeless while slowly indoctrinating them to the respective faith system.

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Probably 14-15, and Joseph would have been about 17.

And that's not pedophilia? And forget Joseph, he was never part of the equation

Yes but concubines were women (ie sex slaves) owned by men with less rights than wives; but the bible still doesn't condone rape anywhere.

And could you get away with rape if you just paid a fine and married your victim, or if the father of the victim didn't have a bloody sheet?

Yes the punishment is not too extreme, unlike Islam where adultery is punishable by death.

Yeh more leniency towards this also shows their standing towards the topic of rape. A slap on the wrist isn't good enough to prevent rape in any time-period.

Because it's a simple matter of what is possible and what isn't. Whoever was in charge of religion was also in charge of the nation - he was the king at that time of the kingdom of Judea/Israel. He already controlled the people. The Bible was written as a way to unify the people together, and to tell them that they were more powerful than the powerful Egyptian empire (which of course wasn't actually true, but believing it would create stability).

...Or the king just wanted to control his subjects. Just like Hitler and his concept of chosen people. Unification and control aren't really two mutually exclusive concepts, rather they go well hand in hand, and religion has been used for this purpose since before christianity was concocted.