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Without meaning to dive directly into Atheism (I myself identify as "spiritual, not religious" ) so much of what went on in the Bible could have been deifying and mythologizing natural occurrences and making extraordinary stories and life-lessons out of many humdrum things. Things like the great flood might have been localized. Like someone who lived in Pompeii, had they survived and wrote about it, likely beleived they were witnessing the end of the world.
Like Cain slew his brother and was exiled from the (parking lot around the?) Garden of Eden where he went on to marry a wife and have children. Um...where did all these new people come from? Either they've skipped a bunch of plot-relevant material, or the same deity or other deities (?) seeded multiple populations and he went and joined one of them? There's a leap of logic here that basically starts the foundation of racism.
Jesus "fed a starving multitude with two loaves and two fishes"? Over what timespan? The multitude might have been a village over years whom he taught how to fish and how to farm and process grain - still an awesome accomplishment, but how was this potentially embellished in the telling to make an impressive story. You know "give a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man to fish, he eats for the rest of his life..."
Again, I do not mean in any way to trash religion directly and understand it's personally valuable and a great thing for many people. We just really need to get back to the GOVERNMENT being secular and not founded in any one specific religion's mythology.
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