The violence in the Bible is appalling.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

You can only have one aim per debate.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.