Adultery and rape are two entirely different words, though. That argument doesn't really do it for me. If maybe the first four commandments weren't spent on god's ego and the sabbath, there could have been a little more clarity there about the whole rape thing. I have an impossible time believing that the god of a universe that's 93 billion light years across would have such unbelievably myopic values. I've never seen convincing evidence that those words weren't just written by humans. I don't believe that the bible was ever a book to be trusted, but that it's been retranslated so many different times to meet the needs of so many different political regimes throughout history doesn't help the argument for it.

When you say, "it must have truth in it otherwise we are just being dishonest," it kind of sounds like you're saying "I'm right and everyone else is wrong." Is that what you mean?

Here's a couple essays I wrote on religion, my thoughts are a lot more nuanced than they are here or in this piece. This one I tried to keep largely centered around that fundamentalist friend of mine. I'd love to hear your thoughts!

https://benulansey.medium.com/religion-and-me-f76122278c50

https://medium.com/3-minutes/the-dangers-of-religion-cc844b7bfb11