The Bible was a made up composite of tales drawn on to help create a complacency in society so the subjects (slaves) could be ruled/controlled easier by the governing body. Church and state are the left and right arm of the same domination machine. We now have a third arm today called media.
Sacred cows once established, die hard. Very hard as can be seen by the clinging to old, established models in distorteded and sustained ways.
Understand the differnce between spirituality and religion and you will understand everything. Religions move for seperation while spirituality evokes connectedness.
All religions create spiritual dis ease. Religions filter experience through a specifc mold while spirituality draws on infininte possiblity.
Many need a separate "saviour" which is indicative of a victim mentality. Being responsible for ones own projections takes clarity and effort. ;-)