Of course Noah's Ark was a recycled myth from earlier cultures...

I've read the bible all the way through once. I don't ever want to do it again. Doing so the first time made me an atheist. No need to repeat the exercise.

The question posed would be similar to asking 'How many people did Hannibal Lecter kill in the book series?" You don't have to believe in Hannibal Lecter to ask or answer the question. In both cases they are both fictional characters who seem to love death.

The point being that if god were real, he loves to kill people or loves to command others to kill people.

@snytiger6 ok, bad frame of reference imo, but fine. might even be for the best i guess.

"The point being that if god were real, he loves to kill people or loves to command others to kill people."
so fwiw i would suggest taking a look at who was "killed," and see the possibility that allegory is being used to make a point, employing a known genre of historical writing that contemporaries would have known better than to read literally. We even have contemporary examples of this, some sportsing club "annihilating" another, etc, but at the time this was a primary historical writing genre, it even has a name

@bbyrd009 If the bible uses allegories then it shoudl be considered to be more literary and not actually a historical record.

As the biblical stories were mostly taken from earlier religions, it is more plagiarism than a record of actual history.

WTF, do i need to believe in Batman to count the number of criminals he has "brought to justice"?

@snytiger6 “ If the bible uses allegories then it shoudl be considered to be more literary and not actually a historical record”
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“As the biblical stories were mostly taken from earlier religions, it is more plagiarism than a record of actual history”
i would say that that is not even in doubt; the first five of the decalogue are from Hammurabi (king of Babylon)
[biblicalhistoricalcontext.com]
(“putting away childish things” )

@AnneWimsey sorry, guess im not getting your point Anne. But mine was that Conquest Genre was a pop form then, and no one was killed, almost surely, as the link i posted to sny discusses

yeh, but we know where the Reed Sea is, and despite a fake sighting or two, no armies or chariots are buried there i guess. And believers tried real hard to find them, too

Sure nuff!! He even killed the Virgin Mary after she was kind enough to have his bastard child!! What a douche bag……

@David_Cooper millions maybe billions

@David_Cooper how about the Crusades?

@AnneWimsey Xtians repeatedly got their asses handed to them huh narf