The bible, along with the koran and torah, is indirectly responsible for a large proportion of the unnecessary suffering in the world today.
It is nothing more than an outdated, poorly written relic of ages past, that should be confined to an intellectually and ethically poorer history, and...
and what evidence do you have that the Catholic Church is the correct interpretation of the hundreds of different ones around the world?
It sounds to me like you're playing a cosmic game of chance.
Why don't you free your mind, do a bit of reading into the philosophy of atheism, and become...
How do you know the stories were meant to be symbolic?
Where could you possibly draw that conclusion from? There are millions of people who disagree with you and would say everything is true as it is written and that you are going to hell for not belieiving the world was created in 6 days. How...