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This idea holds very little weight for me. I don't know how people think scripture was compiled - religious or nay - but at various points there have been people saying what is in and what is out. People have been picking a choosing since forever.
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You're right. I base my dislike of picking and choosing on all the orthodox christians I have known who would thump their fists up and down on the collection of canon scriptures known as the bible and pronounce it the infallible word of god. I don't understand how those people can blind themselves to much of what the bible actually says.
However, people who go into the faith understanding that much of it is compiled, translated, recompiled, thrown out, and retranslated should be able to try and find what makes sense to them.