What IS good, and how do we determine it?

[robvalue]

As far as I'm concerned, whatever reason you may have for ignoring all the horrible shit in the bible, that's good with me. I want to live in a world with nice people. I much prefer you dismissing the OT as allegory than what we often get which is people making horrible arguments to justify the obvious atrocities therein.

It does raise the question why on earth you would keep the OT around if it's just a bunch of weird torture porn stories that no one should take seriously! I mean... what on earth is it all an allegory for? What could we ever learn from it except "might makes right" over and over again?

I'm just glad you are as horrified by the OT as I am. There are plenty of moral problems in the NT as well, though. For one, Jesus doesn't condemn slavery, in fact he talks about people must obey their masters and such. Not so cool.