My Comment
I have always believed that the Bible was a work of fiction. Good ideals are contained in it, I agree. However, it has been subjected to so many alterations,by so many people, to suit their own ends. The current King James Bible bears scant relationship to the original version which was cobbled together by Emperor Constantine at the Council of Nicaea some 300 years after the main character, Christ, was supposedly here on Earth. Serious Diarists of the day, Pliny the Elder and Younger never mention Christ in their writings!!! He gets a minor mention as a rabble rouser in Roman records.
Christ, we are told, was the subject of a Virgin Birth. His Mother was visited by two Angels and told that she would be the only one to ever have had such a thing. There are 20/30 similar stories regarding Buddha, Mohamed and in the long Indian epic poems about Hindus, etc. All of the leaders were Virgin Births. All Mothers were visited by Angels. Same story over and over again!!
Religions are only a control mechanism which provide the ultimate deterrent against doing bad.
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