You missed my point. frankly, I've read the bible, which is why I'm an atheist.
The NOah story is that God committed genocide because people didn't like the choices that people made. Let's put aside the 100 reasons why it was scientifically impossible, the point is, the story shows a god who is really a sociopath.
And you have a crapload of other stories in the Bible that shows God to be nuts. Destroying Sodom. Killing all the first born in Egypt, killing David's baby because David sinned, having Jephthah sacrifice his daughter because of a foolish oath.
Hollywood 'Disney-fies" the Bible so that modern Christians who don't really read the horrible stuff in the bible can feel good about the stories there-in.
It's the timing...and the people who run Hollywood...and that it's not about money this sudden interest in [largely unpopular] biblical themes at the theater. Christians beware.
And thanks for the preview on what is to be redacted.
You can be a doubting Thomas. That's your right. We all have free will; that's the whole reason we are here...to see how we use it, what path we will follow with it. The testing grounds..
I've seen things that cannot be explained with science. I've experienced things you would not believe even if I had your eyes duct-taped open and were there right with me. I too read the Bible as a teen, I had to. It was part of my induction. "Confirmation" they called it. I had the same recoiling you did. I come from a scientific background and my own father was officialy excommunicated from the catholic church. It caused him deep psychological wounds. Needless to say I grew up with a sour taste in my mouth for religion in general. Then weird things started happening. Things I couldn't explain.
Long story short, I'm not a zealot, nor am I a christian. But I do have a different perspective on the bible's "wild fantastical tales". Let's just say that if what can happen happened to little old me, some of the more powerful people in the Bible might have really had the things done to them or done by them that is reported. That's just the thing. It's an old book and none of us were really there. But the
potential for those miraculous events exists. Of that I can assure you.
I have a much stronger respect for the essence of religion, if not the words that do seem fantastical at times. What Hollywood is after is to destroy the essence of religion by manipulating the words. The essence of religion is to remind us that there is more to this world than meets the eye. That this is a test. And examples are given of how to pass or how to fail the test.
Sodom is a story of how one fails that test. It isn't a story of individual sins here or there. It's an account of how a specific type of sinning became vogue within a society as a whole. How even the faithful did not stand in its way as it spread. And because of that, this sin-gone-wild had burned out the core of faith in an entire region. As a result, nobody within its influence could escape that whirlpool. The sin became an entity in and of itself. Through synergy, it became more than the sum of its individual sinners. And this was the reason an entire region was destroyed.
You see it happening lockstep today. You see the cult of LGBT forcefully spreading [evangelizing/inquisition] itself like wildfire.
Jude 1 in the Bible tells of how this happened back then too, through alternately forceful means by the gays then and through their "smooth speech" and influential persons. It warns that if another society in the future should dance down this path, it too will be laid to waste. It isn't the individual sin of homosexuality; or rather the hopeless condition of the individual's compulsive behaviors. Is is how certain behaviors with a strong instinctive drive and imprinting capability [sexuality] in homo sapiens can go awry and actually become a socially-transmitted mental disease that can and did take over an entire region.
The fact that people line up to support transsexuals, for example, shows you just how far this disease has spread unchecked. Years in the future when this fad has been beaten back and laid to waste, our descendants will tell tales of the "barbaric practices of old", "how men went to doctors and had them cut healthy parts of their bodies away so they could pretend to be women" and how "other men lay with these mutilated creatures as if women". And children and adolescents of the future will recoil in horror and say "NO WAY!". And they too will be jaded and in disbelief of those "impossible tales that couldn't possibly be true"...
Full circle..
LGBT cultees are always warning their evangelical targets, their mind-game chumps "don't be on the wrong side of history!" I suggest they take their own advice...