Well, it may do that but I still believe it's still a bunch of stories. And don't get me wrong, it's a GREAT read if you treat it like a book instead of homework, and I'm sure that it can teach you great lessons you can apply to your personal life if you view it through the right prism. I really do believe religion is like a drug. It doesn't do harm nor good in and of it's self, but it's the way the individual utilizes it, and external influences, that affect the outcome.
But, I really take a lot of it with a grain of salt. The God portrayed in the OT was really different from the God portrayed in the NT. I mean... I'd still be an atheist if I believed that God was the way he was portrayed in the OT. That was why I was an atheist, I guess. Maybe I never stopped believing but had disdain instead, who knows? Anyway, the point is that I guess that's why I have such different views than you.
Or maybe I believe in such a different "personality" (I say "personality" because "form" would imply that I believe in a different God than you do, which isn't true (although you have made implied it in the past in one of our quarrels". Don't ask me to look it up... we've had long and numerous "quarrels"
) because on some level I feel that what I believe is better than believing in nothing. Maybe my lax view of the concept of "sin" has been manifested to conform to my own lifestyle. Or, of course all of this speculation could be BS because if I knew my own subconscious then it wouldn't be my subconscious, now would it? I think the REAL answer is that my Hydroxyzine has made my loosen up and ideas are flowing out of my head like so much wine.