Feminist lit suggestions for a guy from a now-disavowed conservative Christian background

Creationism is easily dismissed as silly nonsense to explain things to people before we had science. It's no better or worse than the idea that Pharaoh makes it rain.

What's offensive about the Bible are the many contradictions, the misogyny, the defense of slavery as an institution, the violence, etc. The problem with the religions based on that particular book is that each one claims to be the one and only way, despite cherry picking and creatively interpreting the same book over the course of its many translations.

Also, there's not much said in the Bible that wasn't said 2,000 years before any of those chapters were written - and they weren't exactly all written in the same century.

I'm happy to let people believe what they want at home or in their places of worship. I will not sit silently while those nonsense beliefs become laws by which we are all expected to abide, or taught to children before they have been taught critical thinking skills. Frankly, there is no way religion would survive another century if we didn't allow the indoctrination of anyone below the age of consent. It simply doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

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