Anyways, if we really wanna have a serious discussion about it, I do believe in God and I think the Bible was never meant to be taken literally but just humanity's way of giving us a past/history (which is normal for every civilization), at least with the Old Testament. I think it's mostly metaphorical and all of the passages still have lessons/morals that are true, all things considered.
And Jesus did ACTUALLY exist. He was a real person and historians (non-religious ones included) attest to that. Obviously whether or not he was the actual son of God is where I can understand where people have doubt...as for me, I haven't really thought it through completely. I read a story back in freshman year that theorizes that Jesus did all that stuff we read in the Bible to give people some hope of a happy afterlife to ease their suffering/pain on Earth, but that he was just a normal human being. It seemed reasonable and I pondered on it for a few days but it hasn't really manifested into anything since then.
I still believe in God but it's hard to identify with christianity sometimes, when so many people in the religion are hateful
