Were you taught that there are endless versions of the Bible on ancient scrolls?

Were you taught that many of the ancient words on those scrolls don’t have a definition?

Were you taught that the verses used to hate gay people have been interpreted many different ways over the last several thousand years and that modern interpretations hating gay people are modern?

The answer to each is no, but we were taught that the bible was the direct word of god, so I'd suspect that any of the above would conflict with that message.

Other mistakes religious leaders have made include misinterpreting the Bible to promote slavery, segregation, to kill scientists, to defend the world being flat, to treat women as property, to beat their children, to kill Jews and Muslims, and to have some sick fascination with stopping people from jerking off.

As far as I can recall, we were told that slavery/segregation was biblically a-ok, didn't get anything about scientists or a flat world one way or the other, women were indeed property as it came to marriage, beating children was frowned upon, killing Muslims was encouraged, and fapping was a no-go. So, not a lot of those changed for my church, but taking the passages as they came, it was certainly consistent. What it said was what it meant. I feel like kinder interpretations of the bible are just people deciding what they like and don't like from the book and then building their interpretation around the end result they want to achieve.