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We currently believe that the religion of the Greeks, Romans, Vikings, etc., was pure fiction, and our libraries file the subject as "mythology". But in their day they took their religion as seriously as we take ours. They would have vehemently objected to having their most deeply held beliefs disrespected as mere mythology.

We call the Bible a "holy book". We swear on it in court. And yet, we don't believe in it. We don't believe that the world was created in six days, as is reported in Genesis. Most of us don't believe that it is necessary to avoid eating pig or shellfish products, despite God's commandment that we not do it, a commandment that is not negated by Jesus any more than any other commandment was negated by Jesus. We pick and choose which commandments to follow and which to ignore, mostly on custom alone. If we truly believed that the Bible was a holy book written or inspired by God, wouldn't we obey the commandments within it? We don't even follow Jesus's golden rule that we should treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves. If we did, there would be no war and no discrimination.

We pay lip service to the Bible and delude ourselves into believing that we follow and respect it. We do not.

But an impartial review of the Bible supports our lack of belief. Our archaeologists and astronomers have convincingly proven that the Bible's timetable is fictional. The sun was not created only after vegetation appeared on earth, as is reported in Genesis. The world is much older than is reported in Genesis. Genesis is clearly mistaken in quite a few facts. How could it then be the perfect work of God that it claims to be? It is clearly flawed.

And if Genesis is discredited, doesn't that result in the rest of the Bible falling like a house of cards? If the God of the Bible did not create the world as reported in Genesis, doesn't that negate this god's credentials? I think it does. Without credibility, the entire argument is lost. Therefore the God of the Bible appears to be a work of fiction, of mythology, like Zeus.

And once Jehovah's credentials are negated, who then is Jesus's father? A fictional character? Is that all we're left with? I think so.

Am I saying there is no god? No. Just because Jehovah is a fictional character, that does not mean there is no god. If I made up a character and called him Bob Jones, and said he was a great baseball player, and it later turned out that Bob Jones was nothing but fiction, that would not be evidence that there are no baseball players.

Jehovah's character in the Adam and Eve story is ungodly. He punishes all women throughout history, forever, for Eve's disobedience. That is clearly not fair, not godly, and this supposed god is not worth our prayers or our belief. This is an inferior version of god, a slander of the real living God.

Jehovah's mass murder of the entire planet in the story of Noah and the flood paints him as a mass murdering lunatic similar to Charles Manson and Hitler. His excuse that mankind was evil in some way just doesn't cut it. All babies and their mothers were evil? No. That is beyond belief. That position can't be respected or taken seriously. The god of the Noah story is a mass murdering lunatic and is not worth our prayers or our belief. He is a fictional character. Compare him to Sauron in Lord of the Rings. They are equally evil. How can you possibly defend the extermination of the human race, and chalk it up to God? That is slander against the true living God, the creator of this ant colony we call home.

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