Thoughts on this apologetic

[robvalue]

Cherry picking confuses me, and not just because of the hypocrisy.

Let's say a Christians has been through the bible and picked out the 10-100 verses in there that they think "represents" their morality. I'll ignore the fact that this is them blatantly projecting their own morality onto the bible, not getting it from the bible.

What now? Do they feel the need to re read these verses over and over their whole lives, for fear of forgetting not to cave in their neighbour's skull with a wrench? They have to spend their lives worshipping the book and its supposed author? And go around telling everyone else, "Look, look! It says here to not cave in people's heads with a wrench! Isn't that great advice! Look, there's another 50 verses here with similarly great tips!" Wow that is amazing. Thanks for telling me. *Puts down wrench* Just in time.

When I read a book, I take away from it the parts I find useful, and disregard (after consideration) the parts I find to be unsupported or useless. I don't try and have sex with the book afterwards, give endless money to the place where people read the book out to others, and go around trying to strong arm people to also read the verses that I like and join the madness.

What's up with that? Can't you just learn from the book what you think you've learned, and move on to other books? Start with science books.