This wasn't entertaining or informative and I don’t understand why it was made. Moreover, it tried desperately too hard to be funny and original. +2 since it probably took more than 5 minutes to create and I leave open the option that the intentional humor in this ytmnd is in how hard you tried to make it funny, random, and original.
Plato's Republic. To argue that the Bible has any sort of supernatural significance above and beyond any other written document is, I suppose, a matter of faith, but there is certainly no real evidence within the Bible itself to suggest that it was divinely written, and a wealth of evidence to the contrary. I suppose the only way you can argue anything supernatural about the Bible is to use circular reasoning, hehe.
I'm surprised that no one has linked to the documentary hypothesis article on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_hypothesis. At least in the several courses that I've taken on this subject, that hypothesis of disparate narratives and a redactor holds a lot of weight in academic circles. I believe in God out of personal choice unrelated to the Bible. In my opinion, the Bible is a very valuable *historical* and *literary* source that can be compared to, say, the works of Homer or
