Yeah, I know. I'm not attacking anybody on here.
My "I can't believe you guys are debating this" was just a rhetorical statement.
But for the GFY Historians...this is an interesting in depth look at the Bible's actual history:
http://realhistoryww.com/world_histo...The_Bible2.htm
Notice the part about Origen. He was a "Christian Scholar" in Alexandria Egypt (that would probably get you killed in 2014 by all the muslim zealots in the middle east), and was just one of the MANY guys who decided which scriptures would be included and which ones didn't "fit" what the Pope wanted to be in the bible.
That book that we all grew up with is a carefully constructed piece of mind control that has been tweaked for over 2000 years.
And we all grew up watching our parents, grandparents, and the rest of our family "believing" in it. So we were conditioned from birth.
It's no wonder that even intelligent people take pause and go "I wonder if it's really true". It's hard to overcome that kind of brainwashing.
But if you research it you find out quick that the stories that were told around the campfire by that small Jewish tribe were much older stories that had already been passed down from other cultures and plagarized to fit the Jewish religion and later Christianity.
And if you really step back and use your brain and not your heart...you don't even have to research it. The sheer absurdity of what the bible (or any religions manifesto) says is beyond belief.