Scripture would have us believe that insects have four legs -- but they don't. Scripture would have us all ignorant of the existence of a city in Lebanon called Tyre -- yet there it is. Scripture would have us believe in a wrathful God whose impotence has no better illustration than that the wrath can be quelched by the rituals of priests. Scripture would have us believe that a proper punishment for calling a man "baldy" is to be mauled to death by bears. Scripture would have us believe that God frequently wants his followers to commit genocide. Scripture would have us believe that women are property. Scripture would have us believe that the only way to restore the garden is to destroy it utterly.