Hear hear. I am not particularly a Bible scholar but I do sometimes wonder whether I haven't got a better handle on the bloody thing than some of the faithful around here. I will not condemn the Bible as a pack of lies because I don't know whether any, some, all, or none of it was ever meant to be regarded as true. There have been two thousand years of tendentious charlatanism to corrupt it and turn it into a tool of proselytisation, so who knows. If only Christianity was honest enough to say to us that the Bible consists of some history, some myth, all a bit inseparable, that we can take some moral lessons from it, but should take absolutely none of it as true stories, because we don't have the evidence. That would be honest. Instead, children in Christian schools are told that Jesus is true and that the stories about him are true, including the faux-magical bits. The prayers and hymns say it, just to reinforce it, and if they're really unlucky they'll have to relive the whole thing in the school nativity play. Sentient beings on this forum just know that all this is so wrong. Come and join us.