[Zhavric]

Quote by: gela Liberal christians accept that the Bible was written by the hands of man, and its thus imperfect. God might have influenced it - but so did man.

Which is a tremendous cop out. Every liberal Christian should take every part of the bible figuratively. Instead, they pick and choose which they want to believe and which they want to think are literal... which has far more to do with desire and political agenda than any genuine search for truth or (god forbid) reason.

They pick and choose, because they have the brains to realise certian things in the Bible are wrong, while other things have some credit.

No. They choose what they've been indoctrinated to believe is true. People don't walk on water or come back from the dead. If someone says it happened then they're wrong. Yet even the most liberal Christians still believe the resurrection happened... which it didn't.

I will always respect people who can use their own brains to realise whats right and wrong in the bible, over those who blindly follow.

We have a word in our language for those who have honestly and adequately discovered what's wrong in the bible and rejected it: atheists.

So what if they want to cling to their belief in god? A belief in a god isn't what causes damage.

Of course it is. God is the underpinning of every other harmful biggotted belief Christians have.