That's all very true of course but I think if one reads across the remnants of the Buddhist texts, the Bible, the Hindu texts, even the Koran, there is a collective sense of what is being expressed.
The Bible's antiquity is a big deal, so to the Koran, the significance of which never seems to get the respect it deserves, sure the followers make all sorts of claims of certainty but you have to step away from that and look at the general attempt at remodeling the society in which these works were written and for whom they were written.
I'm not an apologist for the Bible, all I'm trying to do is place it in context relative to the age and educational standards and socio-political landscape of the age in which it was written.
The followers today tend to inoculate against rather than encourage one to approach it with an open mind.
People love acting religious without really investigating its deeper reaches.
I am offering a reason for contradictions. The Bible is a collection of different religions with different purposes and full context and fidelity has been lost of the many, many centuries, but still something quiet profound still comes through.
It is a shattered window on past religions, you can see in but not clearly.
