Quora: What is the most disturbing thing in the Bible that you have found as an atheist?

If you want a deity to exist then create one. That’s what countless other people have done through the ages. If you don’t want a deity then spend your time on something else, like cutting the grass or doing housework or going for a walk.

As for myself, I don’t believe in any deity and would never voluntarily worship one even if it was real and walked amongst us.

I discuss the biblical fairytale because that is what most people yak about here. It is a beautifully written piece of literature and all of the stories in the Old and New Testaments illustrate one or more of the real Ten Commandments, (Exodus 34:11-26) which are highly ethnocentric… People like the fake ones in Exodus chapter 20 and Deuteronomy chapter 5 because they are not racist like the real ones are. If you don’t know that then you don’t know your ass from a hole in the ground and will never understand the stories. The purpose of the stories is to act as a quiz to see if the listener, or reader, can identify which of the real Ten Commandments the stories are about. That’s why the stories themselves don’t have to make sense.

Sirach chapters 44-51 Sirach 44-51 CEB - Hymn to the ancestors - Now allow us to - Bible Gateway illustrates how even you could write the Bible. You just create a list of characters and give them certain attributes and dialogue and focus their actions on the key points that you want to make.

As for Christians, they are simply nothing more than a branch of Judaism. Their basic beliefs are the same as the Pharisees. They are essentially Jews by religion (not ethnically) because they believe in the Jewish deity and in the Jewish high priest Jesus. Jewish religious movements - Wikipedia

Since all of the atheists have already stated that there is no God, then there’s no real purpose for the forum unless you are willing to discuss the various religious fairytales in depth. The problem is that some snowflakes get their feelings hurt when someone expresses new ideas that don’t agree with theirs.