The funniest part of your post (and it was a close competition) is highlighted in red above. According to you, Christianity and the bible are clinging to the last vestiges of credibility.
So true!
LOL!
The difference between the two of us is that you are celebrating that while I am not.
And hence the warnings in the OP about this latest trend in Hollywood films. Thank you once again for letting the cat out of the bag.
I'm not concerned with your unexamined motivations for destroying the institution [christianity] that most directly threatens your statistically-likely unexamined childhood abuse and resulting compulsions sexually. The Bible and religion itself as any of the faithful who really apply themselves will discover, is but an edifice to a much deeper truth. And that truth is that humans need morality. They need structure and laws of decency in the way they treat and regard each other. And the truth is that any holy book anywhere has been touched by the hand of the devil. That is to say that scribes, councils and translators all were fallible men susceptible to the smooth influences of the one with the forked tongue.
So yes, in any holy book are little white lies that snowballed. And its those white lies that snowballed that become the reason men of religion fight each other tooth and nail today. If they simmered back down and opened up their minds, they would find that the underlying structure of morality is one of the greatest gifts the spirit has sent them. They would calm the rhetoric down and reject what their gut tells them is wrong. What they know is wrong.
The story of how Sodom was destroyed and all those who enabled it along with the damned aside... a man trying to copulate with another man's lower digestive tract, substituting the anus for an artificial vagina is wrong. The gut tells a person this. And so no Bible is necessary to interpret that it is completely against the natural design of the matrix that men find themselves in...
Yet when you find stories in the Bible that come with the profundity of the story of Sodom; where entire cities were reported to have been destroyed for a certain reason, and the price for any future repeat is eternity in the pit of fire, it is much less likely that this was a white lie that snowballed. More likely that any mention of being damned to hell for eternity is something you should pay attention to instead of the myriad of ancient venial sins visited and revisited where lesser punishments were prescribed. Most of these are in the Old Testament anyway. And hence the reason Christ came around. To clean up the old mess and freshen up the Bible a bit with a more contemporary theme. I think this is why a new Messiah is overdue. I just don't want that "messiah" to be the wrong one on the silver screen. Christianity has taken all the devilish redacting it can handle..