I originally planned to read the bible so I would have more ammunition to attack religious people with, but I didn't know it would be so boring that I'd waste almost 2 months of my reading time on it. Had I known it was going to take so long I wouldn't have bothered.

Also, I was going to write this review in one of two ways: either in that "hilarious" style where I'd treat it as a normal fiction book and rate it badly for incoherent plot etc, or else list all the contradictions, errors, sadistic acts, and just plain weird parts, and say "See how fucked up your precious bible really is? How can you take it seriously? Are you brain damaged?".

But in the end after reading it through completely, I wasn't left feeling in a humorous mood. Maybe it's no wonder the world is full of religious freaks doing idiotic things; if someone was brought up and led to believe all through his childhood that all of this stuff was for real I can see how a large majority of them would be unable to shake off those falsehoods.

I also saw the film "United 93" yesterday, and the only difference between the fanatics in that film and the fanatics in other religions is that they grew up idolizing different books. The infection vector and the outcome is the same, i.e., persons not capable of independent thought. And there's not much of an effort needed to convince such people to do whatever you want.