no one is saying the bible doesn't have valuable stories and lessons to teach people.
What we are saying is that the people who take those stories as the
word and the only word, that use them to control and manipulate people,
and then walk through life with their eyes shut and their hands over
their ears while uncontrollably screaming that evolution is bullshit
(or in this case, the CAUSE of the Holocaust), that the earth is just a
few thousands years old, and that our god and only our god is the
creator of everything are fucking pieces of shit.  Then problems arise
when this sort of mentality begins to affect those around it who want
nothing to do with it.
I am all for religion when it helps someone personally.  Great, do your thing.  Faith helps a lot of people.
But keep the rules and bullshit that comes with it to yourselves.  If
you don't want to believe in evolution, fine, but don't try to tell me
that evolution consists of some slime that developed into a bunch of
other shit while claiming you can prove that evolution doesn't happen
in sheep cause some "scientist" explained it to you.  Don't sit there
and talk about how "Charles" Dawkins is some world renowned
evolutionist when you can't even get his name right.
The whole "go debate a creationist" is a joke because they bring the
same ignorant, spouting of BS, fish out of water mentality to any
logical discussion.
These are the type of people that I am sure logical Christians just
cringe over.  It sad that all these well meaning, good spirited
religious people who have faith for themselves get tied in with a bunch
of crazies who make them all look like total idiots.  I know it would
piss me the fuck off.
And this is not a rant limited to just Christianity.  Zealots of EVERY religion are fucking retarded.
So is the Bible a great book with lots of valuable lessons to teach people?
Without question.
Do many of those lessons get distorted by people who need to pull their head of our their asses?
Naw man, no way, the earth is only 6,000 years old and the 13 billion
years the universe has been in existence is just a trick, just like
fossils, that god is playing on you.  Smarten up man!  Oh, and gays
can't marry (because, of course, Marriage is an entirely Christian creation, no one ANYWHERE in the world got married before Christianity came along, meaning that just because there is supposed to be separation of church and state in the US, and that all people are supposed to be created equally, it just really don't apply to those fags who want the same right as me!) , no condoms for the millions dying in Africa (because hey, like the Pope said, providing millions of poor, AIDS revenged people with the means of safe sex would only INCREASE the problem), and no stem cell research should be conducted in any way shape or form (even though the majority of stem cells don't come from aborted fetuses, and the results of that research would help out millions of suffering people each year).  Yes.  We kick fucking ass.