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You don’t have to believe that the Bible is perfect. Scripture is “inspired and useful” (2 Timothy 3:16), but still a created thing. It is idolatry to call scripture perfect, inerrant, or sufficient. Bibliolaters say scripture is perfect because it is “from God;” for those who truly worship the Creator, everything in existence is from God. God alone is perfect. "Faith" doesn't have to mean believing for no reason. In fact, faith (Latin fides) simply means fidelity, and the Gospel is full of stories that emphasize the importance of observed evidence. The religion of Jesus, who allowed Thomas to prod his wounds for the sake of proof, has become diabolically corrupted so that unquestioning submission to authority has become its hallmark. You don’t have to reject science and reason. The “Logos/Word” which Christians see manifest in Jesus was how the ancients referred to the organizing principle of natural law through which the Creator brings the universe into existence. Logos (λόγος) translates as Reason; to apply reason to natural law is in the spirit of true Christianity.

Religious stories don't have to be factual to be valid. Jesus taught in fictional parables, demonstrating that the spiritual importance of a story has nothing to do with its historicity or facticity. Those materialists who insist that stories must be historically factual to be spiritually and religiously true are implying that Jesus is a fraud. You don’t have to believe that Jesus was God. Messiah (מָשׁיחַ) and Christ (Χριστός) are simply the Hebrew and Greek words for “Anointed,” indicating Jesus was God’s anointed representative on Earth. Referring to Jesus as God’s Son, God’s Word, and God’s Name merely emphasize that emissarial relationship; as The Gospel of John 1:12 makes clear, anyone who believes in the Name becomes a “Child” of God as Jesus was. You don’t have to hate other religions. Jesus praised the faith of a pagan Centurion, used Samaritans as symbols of good behavior, while Paul asserted that the pagan Greek “Unknown God” was the same God worshipped by Christians, and Jesus’ birth was attended by Zoroastrian Magi; Christianity has embraced other beliefs from the very beginning.

You can believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit without believing in anti-rational TrinitarianismIn fact, the doctrine of the Trinity was imposed on Christianity, and its interpretation imposed on the Bible, by theologians aligned with Imperial authority desiring to instill blind, unthinking obedience in their subjects. Listing God "the Father," the Son of God, and the Holy Spirit in sequence does not in any way require one to believe these are three co-equal, co-eternal persons inside a polytheistic, triune Godhead. This strange and un-scriptural conception of God, as it requires the believer to shut off the rational part of the mind and simply accept dogma on authority, is a seedbed for blind un-thinking obedience and was used that way from its origin in the centralist, authoritarian faction of the Early Church.

You don’t have to choose between common sense and Christianity.
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