"I contend that Christians are discouraged from questioning the veracity of the Bible for the same reasons they're discouraged from questioning the veracity of all the other aspects of doctrine"

No one was ever made any successful attempts to discourage me questioning anything, nor have I ever peddled anything to anyone on any aspects of a God belief, and I aconsider myself a questioning Christian since youth.

Joe Offer seems to post that people in his parish question or ignore many aspects of what Rome seems to say. I suspect that, unlike in the past, many Christians question and debate most aspects of their belief. Could you be refering to your experience in the past?

And, could you be confusing the term Christian with the christrian extreme, those some folks refer to as the Chriatian right? I suspect you would not want to be lumped together with all Atheists? Does it make sense to lump all Christians in the same group, when you speak of some?