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To be fair, religious texts such as the Torah, New Testament, and Qur'an are quite long and intricate. I've studied them for many years, and even with the benefit of not being in the religions (which means I come at all of them from the same perspective), and I'm still only a novice. While I can understand panties getting tied in knots over silly things like democracy or capitalism in the Bible, there are mistakes even highly educated people make.
And really, for many people there's no difference between getting their information from the original text and a pamphlet. It's all appeal to authority. Even if something is in the Bible, that doesn't necessarily make it true, case in point the stationary earth theory from Job chapter 38.
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