ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
I found a lot of people haven’t read or understood the Bible for themselves and parrot the false interpretations of other people.
You mean all the people who have different interpretations to you?
I first read the bible as a young believer; it was (thankfully!) the beginning of the end of my faith when I realised what a contradictory mess it was and how all the teaching I'd been given was just based on cherry-picking, as any message people claim to get from it must inevitably be. It's no wonder there are so many contradictory cults, sects, and denominations that all claim to be following the bible. It's purely a question of which 'cherries' you choose to pick.