Originally Posted by wizhard

The Bible was "written" with the pen of cynical and power hungry men back in a time of relatively high general ignorance and it's word enforced by the sword & empty promises and lies for many centuries untill it engrained itself so deeply into the culture of so many people that they allmost stopped questioning it's validety and it's mass acceptance meant it became "truth" in many peoples minds. Once there it built a very powerfull "weight of tradition" that although somewhat diminished in recent years is still a very powerfull force to be reconed with.