#also I’d like to clarify this isn’t really a comment on how Islam or Judaism interacts with any parts of the Bible or Torah

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I wish we saw the Bible the way we see other ancient parables and philosophy. Because the Bible is genuinely fascinating and interesting and I think would give so much more value to human society if it was just looked at as something that you could cherry pick from and read interesting subtext into (like the queer themes of David and Johnathan) and not as a book to be taken as entirely literally if you’re Christian. Even I feel like the way a lot of atheists generally think about the Bible is more,understandably, fueled by the anger it’s made them feel from how a lot of Christians have used it against them than like a look at it as an ancient text can be used as a resource to understand humanity, good and bad. I just think it would be neat and also change the way it’s treated as superior to other ancient texts, often with racist implications about other ancient cultures.