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Earlier tonight I was chatting with an old friend on Facebook. We didn't quite get to the end of our Theological discussion before he had to split so I sent him my response and felt like sharing it. 

I realize that at first glance this may not seem to have anything to do with Politics, but the fact that regardless of whether or not there is a God, we the people still do shitty things to one another has everything to do with Politics in our country right now and is in a way at the root of the problem. 

Here is part of what I wrote to my friend:

I would like to believe in the stories that I grew up listening to. But more and more I can't. It may be that there is a God and if there is then I would agree with you that he left us the instructions and set the game and then went and did his thing. The problem with that is twofold to me.

 
1. If he loves us as much as the Bible claims he does then he would not just leave the instructions and then fuck off to somewhere else in the Universe.

2. This then leads me to question the authority of the Bible. Not that the 'basic' idea isn't there, but that to many specifics aren't which leaves me questioning the men who penned it and translated it and passed it on to be translated further.

I know it is a cliche argument, but when you play telephone the wires very often times get crossed. 
The wires getting crossed meeting with the fact that man is imperfect (though I don't believe in God, I still believe man to be sinful, which admittedly may render my whole point moot) I can't help but wonder if somewhere out of greed and power lust some less than honorable man in a position of undeserved power changed some words around to fit the message he wanted the body of Christ to hear. The same way Politicians bend their words and change their stories depending on whether they are talking to FOX News or the Huffington Post.

One could argue that the consequences of such actions weren't to be seen, and that a person who would do that kind of thing might not have known better. But if that person had any hand in the words that are revered as the 'Word of God' then how am I to trust the 'Word' if I know that some of it was written by a fraud and then how do we separate the truth from the lies in what we are told on Sundays to take on blind faith as truth.

It may sound like I am talking bullshit but when you look at the history of the Catholic Church and how they covered up their sex scandals, well that on its own makes me distrust men claiming to speak/know the will of God.

People will say anything to get what THEY want. So how are we to know what is true?