Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated
We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.
I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.
If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.