I find it to be a rather unenlightened compilation.

Julie

Some pithy proverbs.

or any religion's holy book the contents are just opinion. If someone wants to believe in the literal interpretation or cherry pick what they want to believe that is their choice but it always comes down to just being an opinion that is not worth much (in my opinion).

It is fine to debate the issues to try to open someone's eyes on the matter but if they want to continue to be "blind" on the facts there is not much one can do about it. One of the key elements of religion is to make sure the "believers" exhibit cognitive dissonance.

But those contents have also been heavily cherry-picked to create the Bible as we know it today in the first place. There are many other books (alternative Gospels, for examples) that could have gone into the Bible, but didn't.

the holy books are just opinion and in my opinion, not worthy of consideration. The christian bible is a horrible book but that is just my opinion and others might disagree. I just hope they don't disagree to the point of violence towards me but I can never discount how people are going to act out their religious beliefs.

At least for my copy.

But I'm not sure that we need a thousand pages of horseshit dogma to have lives as good, humane people.