text: As an agnostic, I find the theological opinions of those who do believe, interesting, but irrelevant.  The Old Testament with its violence, slavery and mandatory death sentences, not to ignore the big gambling game between God and Satan for poor Job, is not part of my belief system.
  
  Nor is the New Testament, with its mandatory requirement to believe in Jesus or face eternal damnation--even if you have never even heard of Jesus in your life.
  
  I have never eaten Jesus' flesh, nor have I drunk his blood.  I find  cannibalism offensive, even as a ritual act.  
  
  The Mayans liked human flesh in their religious observances, too.  I have no desire to emulate either them or the Christians.  
  
   The same man who is too gutless to respond honestly regarding the adulteress has no problem with the violence of throwing people out of the Temple. ---- If you actually believe the stories which were told and embellished years, decades or centuries after they supposedly occurred.