Looking back on what I accepted to believe at the time, I now realize how peculiar some of things were:
- people talking to a snake
- killer of brother, who was recognized for his great offer, walks free and protected
- first humans knew how to make children without any instruction, compared to how teenagers are informed about sex
- the biggest opponent of the Almighty God was free to move around, whereas eating from a forbidden fruit was so wrong, that all suffered severely
- a flood did not remove evil, so what was the purpose to kill all men, women and children
In general, to believe in an unseen, unheard deity and made believe that you can ask anything (but never see results), that the deity loves you (but apparently not all humans as many suffer innocently) ....
And now, I am warned that I can be deceived via social media by people you do not know, receive emails from strangers and other unsolicited contacts.
By contrast, millions of people dedicate their lives and resources to a deity they never met, cannot touch, see or hear and is only known from letters of people they have never met and of whom little to nothing is known.
Isn't that peculiar?