I do want to. Maybe I shouldn't have used quotation marks but, nonetheless, you don't really want to say translation is not a paraphrase, do you?
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Except most rational people will tell you that the Bible is highly unlikely to be composed entirely of the word of God, but was in fact written by a number of different authors over a long period of time, mostly long after the events described supposedly took place. And those authors lived at a time of poor record-keeping, in a society with a number of views modern moral teachings would consider outdated, and had specific views of their own which they likely would have inserted into the religious text they were writing. Which is the entire reason why there are people coming up with alternate interpretations of those texts.
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If that was true, man. If that was true. Dedicated christians will never tell you that. Unless you don't mean them by "most rational people", which is not a very nice thing to say.
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That is an absurd comparison because people who are kidnapped have nothing to do with their kidnapper except that they were taken hostage by force.
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You don't really think there are no reprecussions for leaving a religion, do you? Especially the main religion of the country.