Oh, as far as Bible stuff goes, I was raised Methodist
   (Christian) which was more humanist than anything. In my mid-20s
   I converted to Eastern Orthodox and learned a lot of history
   they didn't each me in school. I was "Mr Science" for about 10
   years after that, and now I'm integrating my opinions as best I
   can. I've been agnostic for about... i guess 15 years now. But
   somewhere along the line, I adopted this basic view of Church
   history: [not EXACTLY this at all, but it's the 'gist'] I'd make
   a number of changes to it. (this is one I saw recently) But
   because i have this view of religious history (more or less), I
   don't see picking weird stuff out of a document to be useful, as
   they're out of historical context.