Greatest I am
The point that I was trying to make is that much of it is myth and fantasy just as many stories are written, from one’s imagination albeit there is also much history there.
Do you ever stop to consider and mention the good things about the bible, the beautiful pearls of wisdom there?
Have you ever stopped to consider that humanity (at least much of humanity) has reached more of an enlightened stage than there was back then? When you consider these things, do you ever have THAT in mind?
No, but people who are the despots and the puppeteers have a need to have things their way, their beliefs practiced their way, their thinking and ideas their way, are the real big bad wolves.
I love wolves and I am sorry wolves that I maligned you in such a way.
This is what you do not see at least I think you do. You take everything in the bible so literally and you do not take into account the culture and beliefs of that time.
For evil to grow all people ALSO need to do is to not see the good which comes from some religions. There is always another aspect of things - the light and the dark, the good and the evil, the hot and the cold, the thinking and the unthinking.
You are actually throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Unless you can also see the good, you may also be adding to the corruption of a religion.
Religion is composed of PEOPLE, INDIVIDUALS. Perhaps if you read the NT you can see that there is much good in the words of Christ whether or not he existed is another thing.
It is not necessarily a bad thing ~~ it is probably a good thing to point out the negative unenlightened areas of the bible like anti-semitism, hatred and bashing of gays, incest, et cetera, but if you do not see and also point out the good parts, you lose your credibility. If you cannot understand that many if not most people back then were ignorant meaning never having learned about something in the first place, how can come to the truth about things.
You cannot just show one side of something without the other and get at the truth, can you?