If you went to Catholic school, you were taught that the Bible was inspired by God, written by man.
So, um, you think that when God was "inspiring" the Sheep Herders, he would have told them stuff like "Slavery is bad" and "Genocide is wrong".
You were also sleeping through classes where it was pointed out that the Bible was presented in story form? I suppose your nuns skipped over the parts that were what were currently known as Just So stories; as Fables; Myths; Songs; Poetry; Plays. Sounds like you were asleep in both religion and English classes.
Here's the thing. What we got were the DISNEY versions of Bible stories... Which means the Great Flood was presented as THIS..
And not THIS....
When it occurred to Little Joey that the Flood meant drowning every baby in the world, Sister Mary Butch screamed they were WICKED babies and had it coming. Today, I think she'd have been a much happy person if they just let her be a lesbian with some scented candles and practical shoes.
Of course, the really juicy stories they kept hidden from us, or didn't talk about. So I didn't get to hear about Jephthah butchering and burning his daughter until College.
Did the lessons on witnesses go over your head? To accuse anyone of a crime, the event had to be witnessed separately by two unrelated witnesses. Next, if the guilty verdict was unanimous, the prisoner was set free on the basis of a demonstrated lack of compassion/mercy by the court. Finally, any court who executed two people within a seventy year period was known as a bloody court.
Um.... seriously? The problem isn't "how many witnesses there were", it was that they were BEING EXECUTED FOR PETTY CRIMES, such as picking up sticks on the Sabbath, or not being a virgin on their wedding night, or being gay! Stuff that even CONSERVATIVES would throw you in jail for if you actually tried to do.
You sure wasted a lot of your time (not to mention the time of your teachers) in Catholic school.
Oh, I agree, it took years to undo the damage these psychos did to me.