Do problems with the historocity of the Bible affect your faith (or lack of it)?

[Meursault]

My absence of faith is not predicated on any empirical truth-claim.

[Meursault]

Save that pi has never been three on the nose.

[Meursault]

I don't want near accuracy from the Living Word; "as good as any other estimate" does not cut it.

I suppose then that the Bible is as good as any other bit of sacred text.

[Meursault]

Or, to express it differently: because the Good News does not move my soul - because I do not find it as emotionally true as the Bhagavad-Gita, or as logical as the Law of Mani - it had better be more realistic than these.

But it isn't the history that bothers me. It's the little things, like getting pi wrong, or the exact weight of a talent. If G__ can sweat the small stuff like dietary laws, He can be exacting with His units of measurememt, not sloppy, like those filthy Baalists.

[Meursault]

Exactly.

That's how conscious life is.  Sentient beings fight, are selfish, are petulant, love conditionally, and are generally all-around hot-blooded motherers.

I prefer gods to be so relatable, rather than the numbing, droning Love of Christianity, or the weird anti-personality that is Allah.