[The bible] supports genocide when committed by God...it’s an awful atavistic narrative and the world would be better off if fell in to obscurity.

A God destroying his enemies? Unheard of! Who gave the right to that God who created all things and is the most high authority and power in all of creation? Well by God he should have to go to someone to get the authority to do that!

If the word of God fell into obscurity this world would fall apart in a matter of years. Law and order is not a construct of the human mind. It is rooted in the word of God. The authority of the bible comes simply by the mere fact of where it came from: God. But in the secular sense it is from the wide and ages long belief and fear of it that is still the dominant faith today. Because it is a widely believed and feared faith, authority of it comes from that.