With the greatest respect, I think the joke section is the only place on HC in which we are likely to see a glimmer of the truth.
Sky Daddy, is a bit rude, but people are fed up with the nonsense claims of religion.
The Bible is a 100% human construct. It may contain elements of some greater truth, but even so, it has to be interpreted and in doing so the end result is a story. It's a made-up narrative that fits the prejudice and mindset of the imaginer.
For some they see a divine order not to have blood transfusions and many thousands have died because, God has written a so-called infallible book and special people can understand it real good.
Others will argue that humans are only 6000 years old, even contradicting every natural science known and proven, but it's in the book, right.
Others will argue that all the details of the Flood are literal. Once again this contradicts logic, reason, science and basic common sense, but brother, it's in that book and some can see symbolic language and others will fight to the death that it is literal. Once again contradicting all the science they depend on every moment of their lives.
So it would not matter if the Bible was written by God Himself, which it isn't, the reader is deeply flawed and those flaws become the story and those stories they make up after reading the Bible can be both sublime and lethal. Everything read in the Bible has to be placed into a story constructed by the reader.
We know nothing about the nature of God and in most cases even less after reading the Bible, because when we think we know we actually know less than nothing, because nothing is the most you can know about God.
Be kind, be nonjudgemental and treat others as you wish to be treated is the active force of faith the Bible is trying to impart. The rest is for those who talk the good talk to endlessly trip over.
