The bible is not a history book.

[Nune]

It's kind of funny watching people like you try to dismantle concepts and ideals so much greater than you. Growing up, I was forced to go to church till I was in high school, so I was naturally resistant to it being a teenager pushed into the arms of conformity. One of my best friend's dad was our pastor, and one day I just let it all out.

I told him I thought religion was modern slavery, that church's cause more strife for people than good, that clearly the Bible was a fictionally based book based around imposed morals; not a book about given characters of history. And mostly that "religious" people were generally judgemental and closed-minded. Pretty much everything I'd ever said to a religious figure, in genuine expression, that resulted in a distasteful judgement. When I was done, he had a smile on his face. He told me that what I felt was what he felt; that no pastor - even the Pope- could believe everything the Bible wrote down, but it was about the message between the lines.

This was the first time I realized the strength of faith. That someone who could believe these things and live by this "code" had more strength than someone like OP who probably finds an elated sense of empowerment from shitting on finite details regarding the Bible.

Snakes can't talk (but they can kick and bash mirite McQuaid), pillars of fire don't appear and guide people through deserts at night, virgins don't give birth, and certainly dead people don't come back to life days later. But through these stories, within the context, is a story about the poison of man and the remedy of a belief in a higher power.

And for the record, I do not believe in the God described in The Bible, nor would I consider myself a religious man. I just find this post similar to some kid in head-to-toe Abercrombie clothes walking by Hot Topic calling goth kids fags; thinking there's a great divide between what he thinks is fashion is compared to them.