Have you ever sat down and read the Bible? Even if you don't wish to believe in GOD, the Bible is one very deep well thought out piece of literature second to none!
Yees, I've read it in full already as a child. The Bible, not some TV churchs "preacher" version of it.
You know, we European Catholics (ok, me as a former one

) are the originals.
Some teaching for you: the bible is not a deep well thought out piece of literature.
The bible is a patchwork of ancient notes and novels, mostly fictional, written by dozens of people. Lot of fakes, too. The origins of which are rooted somewhere after the years 70ff. when the romans wiped out the jews from Palestine. What makes it very doubtful that one single word was really from some apostles, because they would have been over 100 years old then. What was rather difficult at that times.
This pieces where then put together with the Tora (all that shit of the 5 books of Moses) aka old Testament as New testament by the Concile of Nicäa, Pope Konstantin I. and then more detailed until year 400. If you want it more precise, study church history.
A lot of things which were considered as disturbing for the dumb illiterates were simply discarded and destroyed.
So, what it was meant for was to set certain live rules and support the hierarchy in society. Somethng the ancient religions of Zeus and Jupiter did miss out. The backup by a mystical god was extremely helpful, it supplied the fear of consequences in case of misbehaviour.
And, it was restricted to the Mediterranian. The god of the bible did not know that America, Australia or Asia existed. Read the bible, your country is not mentioned there.
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