I don't hate religious mythology. I support freedom of religion although I don't understand why in the modern age, people continue to take mythology as truth. As I already said, there are af few positive things in the Bible, but some of them are human universals, found in all cultures and societies, as far as we know. My late father used to freak us out but making us read the horrors of the OT, when he was in a bad mood. My religious upbringing gave me emotional damage as a child. While I'm over it, I view the Bible for the most part as a collection of mostly evil myths with a little bit of good stuff in the mix here and there. Whatever floats your boat is fine with me, as long as you don't try to drag me into the boat with you.
It was you who referenced Lamont. I just quoted one of the positive things he had to say about the Bible.
Many children are traumatized by their parents' take on religion. To free yourself, you must free yourself from your parents.
My parents are dead and I maintained a very close relationship with them until the end. I was the only one my mom recognized prior to her death at age 97. She had dementia. My father and I were very close and I know I was his favorite daughter. He had severe PTSD from combat as well as bipolar disorder. I cared for mentally ill people during many years of my nursing career.
I freed myself from the Bible and from religion, not from my parents because it's easy to forgive. My parents were simply indoctrinated into an extreme version of Christianity. I will never understand it, but I guess they couldn't resist.
I already said there were some good things in the Bible. There are good things in most religions, but there are also lots of bad things as well. I prefer to be good without a god and I don't need the Bible. I probably know more Bible verses than many Christians do as they were drilled into my head as a child, the good, the bad and the ugly.
