[kahljorn]

"any idiot with a basic knowledge of history and a moderate imagination can write a better book than the bible or any of the corresponding texts."

Yea, not like "HISTORICALLY" a four thousand years ago people had less knowledge than they did now. Nope.
Also, all things considered, I've been trying to tell everyone here. THe bible is not the first instance of those stories, so, if anything, moses basic knowledge of history dated back to the earliest civilization we know of; In which case, I'd say he did a pretty good job, no?

Also, the bible has been the center of more controversary, seperate idealogies, study... well, it's just pretty much had the center of every "world" us human beings can participate i n. I'd say, if a simple Book can invoke things like that(whether the story is true or not) it must have some kind of power ;/. I've never seen people fight to the death over something written by Kafka... although I have heard of philosophers being killed for their ideas.