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

Firstly I would say that the message that we should take from the Noah story that no matter how bad things get, God doesn't give up on us. The flood story IMHO is a legend that grew up within various cultures around some local flood centuries ago.I strongly disagree with your take on the NT. Firstly it isn't about going to heaven at all but about heaven coming to earth, or more pointedly, the renewal of all things in this world. We are only given a very broad image of what would be like, with things like no suffering and not being stuck with one dimension in time doing away with entropy.Most of the things that are taken of people going to hell after death are not about that at all. Jesus was a revolutionist but a non-violent one. His message is that if you keep up with pushing for violent revolution there will a disastrous end and then uses OT hyperbolic imagery to emphasize His message, which would be hell on earth. He even predicted what eventually happened in the war starting in 66 AD roughly 30 years later.In Canada Trudeau is our Prime Minister. Yes i believe he is, but I don't believe in him. Jesus' message is consistent with my signature. His call is about self ging love. That is what constitutes believing in Jesus. Essentially it's about the heart. What matters isn't what we believe or what we do, but about how we love. We can follow that command whether we are Christian, Islamic, atheist or even Unitarian.As far as judgement is concerned I don't really concern myself with it as I believe in a God that is consistent with what God asks with us in my signature.

It's legendary mythology. God didn't wipe out anybody. The point is even if there is only one righteous person left God isn't giving up on us. I knew that the Noah story followed Gilgamesh but the name Utnapishtim sent me scurrying to Mr. Google. He was the Noah character in the Gilgamesh story. It's a bad day when you don't learn something./

And you know that how. I've been involved in church life for numerous years and I haven't met all that many Christians who would read that literally. Actually it's more of an American thing. Sure it's easier for the vast majority of posters on this forum so mock the strawman you have set up. I don't think I've changed any minds but I've tried to a show that to be a conservative Christian, (which is a label that you have attached), you don't have to conform to your strawman.I suppose I have repeated things that I've posted several times previously but just maybe I repeat them because posters here keep pounding away with the same attacks they have made all along.So as I'm sorry if I'm boring you and you can carry on carrying on.