The disconnect between the bible, and its horrific actions versus the message

I was raised Unitarian. I never believed the Bible stories were real, but I did believe they characterized the God of Christianity, that the stories were intended to send a message. The OT does not paint a pretty picture, and the NT interpretation where no one who hasn't accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior can go to heaven, even if they've never heard of him, seems just as severe as the OT, minus the slaughter and genocide and salt pillars and all that.--Percy

That's you. Most conservative Christians take the flood story as literal truth and are therefore worshipping a monster. And the flood is just one of many OT examples. Again, that's you, not conservative Christians. I have a couple responses:

• How is preaching working for ya here so far?
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• And you know this how?

You have your own set of eclectic religious views about which you'll go on endlessly, continually and repeatedly cycling back to earlier issues which you left people feeling were settled, as captured in Choosing a faith.--Percy

Seriously? You've been here since 2005 and somehow missed the parade of creationists arguing about the Grand Canyon and geologic layers and Mount St. Helens and radiometric dating and slow light and the impossibility of evolution and the literal truth of the Bible? Did you never go to the religious section of bookstores in the 1990s and early 2000s and see all the books dedicated to creationism? I created this site because of the very active debate between creation and evolution. And you're asking how I know that most conservative Christians take the flood story literally? Strawman? Again, have you been reading the posts on this site or not? How you could read anything by Faith, ICANT, randman, riVeRraT, Buzsaw, mike the wiz, frako, Dredge and so on and say we're creating a strawman? Then there's organizations like ICR and CRS, all the people cheering on Duane Gish at his "debates", the Answers in Genesis Ark Encounter park that draws nearly a million visitors a year, Kitzmiller v. Dover and all the efforts to get Genesis taught in schools, and on and on. A strawman? That's just delusional. Please don't be this absurd.--Percy

What's going on?--Percy

Stay well.--Percy