Today alot of people, are just trying to get that big "O". I was brought up a Christian. Went to meetings, knocked on doors, and even gave some speeches. And through all of that time served I've learned that its not the bible that's flawed, its the people who "claim" to follow it that are. With priests molesting little boys, christians fighting christians, and everybody going after whatever gets them whatever it is they want. You've gotta know its the people and not the book. Besides, where in the bible does it say, " And God went down and began to screw all the villagers."
Anybody thats ever picked up the bible and actually had any insight into what its said knows its not a book you can just pick up and read. Its going to make extremely hard reading. Its like trying to pick up a book on Quantum Physics when you don't even heard of an atom.
Acts 8:30,31--"Philip ran alongside and heard him reading aloudside and heard him reading aloud Isaiah the prophet, and he said " Do you actually know what you are reading?" He said " Really, How could I ever do so unless someone guided me?"
Anyways... That being said. The bible was written a long time ago when people, for the most part, actually feared being struck with lightning and the afterlife. It's far from being anything close to that today.
People are always gonna do whatever makes them happy, whether or not it makes sense. I know a "Catholic" girl that did just about every drug there is screws guys on a daily basis, whether or not she's even dating them. Thinks being gay is wrong but isn't opposed to acts of lesbianism.
What people do doesn't have to make sense 'cuz their gonna do it anyway as long as it puts a smile on their face, and makes them feel ever so slightly better at the end of the day. Even if it kills them by the end of the week.
