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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
The problem is that 90% of believers seem to subscribe to that simplistic broad-stroked version of the OT if not the entire bible. They take it as a integral, contiguous, consistent, universal, and timeless guide to the be-all-end-all way that the world has always been and should always be...instead of what it really is, a vastly edited and compiled collected book of ancient texts written for various purposes, times, and cultures...put together in a certain order and way by dark-ages papal councils millenia later for their own purposes (political, philosophical, or even arbitrary), times, and cultures.
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Not to mention if they actually did research they'd see most of the bible was old news when it was created, and that it steals from ancient religions.
But I'm sure its just coincidence that the story of the death, ressurection, son of god, crucifixion, etc.. is just common in a whole host of other god stories from before the time of the bible.