Ok, good point Apes. You did come off rather strongly at first, so that's why I took you for some douche, lol.

True, the Bible is vast. Maybe I was lucky enough to have parents that taught me to think logically and to interpret the good book reasonably. In my opinion, life is about being a good person, and not taking things to extremes.

I don't like to admit it, but I do think that the idea of burning in a fiery eternity has kept me from doing things that I would probably be regretting now.

On another note,

We learned in sociology that until age 7 or 10 (i don't remember exactly), children aren't able to put themselves in other people's shoes yet or think entirely in a moral sense. Until then, fear of punishment is what keeps them from breaking the rules. That's probably why religion is forced upon them at a young age. Until you're a teenager, you don't really have the capacity to think about the true right/wrong, the meaning of life, or any of that.