An angry response from a non-christian concerning the christianity in general & the Bible's authenticity in particular.

This was taken from the scripturist, a new blog I've discovered. I like how they respond to attacks such as these. Read this carefully. Sorry if you are offended by the expletives but they are retained for purposes of accuracy.

"I HAVE read the Bible, what makes you think I haven't? Because I don't actually buy into that bullshit?

The stories DO contradict each other. Ever heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls? But the church heavily edited everything to get their point of view across, and took out the contradictions then.

My point is, not ALL of the authors could have been guided by the Holy Spirit. Even if they were, doesn't the Bible say man is fallible and suseptible to evil? So how can you take what is written by fallible men to be complete and utter truth? Nor could they have accurately reported on Jesus and what he did 200 years after he died, by people who didn't even know him (I'm referring to the Gospels here).

The reason I get angry when the Bible is mentioned is because of the loss of rationality that occurs when people get religious. Even if the Bible were truely written by people guided by the Holy Spirit, surely he didn't intend for everything to be taken so LITERALLY. And the "word of God" is so easily abused to justify the most horrifying things.

Also, I don't see anything in the Bible about being a good person that one can't discover for themselves or through society. So it has no value for me. I'm a good person for goodness' sake, not because I will go to hell if I'm not.

I just don't like how people into religion seem to think they must be right about everything, because God said so, and then try to force their religion down everyone else's throat. I know not every religious person is like that, but unfortunately most are.

I don't mind if people need religion to make themselves feel better about life, but please don't assume everyone else needs it too just because it helped you. I prefer to base my morals and decisions based upon actual knowledge, not some heavily-edited story from thousands of years ago created to further some asshole Pope's political gains.

What do you think? How would you respond to this if you are a christian? It's great. The "offending" article is below.