A lot of people seem to think that they're reading the bible. I suspect the book tends to read them instead.

If people are looking for justifications of hate, passages for why god hates homosexuality, darker ethnicities, or certain economic classes, you can find them. If you're looking for passages that say women should be subserviant and never think to question a man, you can find them.

If you're looking for a calling to love your neighbors and fellow man, you can find that too. If you're looking for a code of ethics for righteous people, you can find it.

Like reading a horoscope, some of it sounds right, some of it is a little odd, but we hear what we want to hear and ignore the rest.

But I don't need to be told to love man in order to do so. I don't need to be told about divine ethics in order to live by them. And I don't think you do either. If you can read the bible, and know what is good, and what is outdated drivel... then why do you need the book at all?