It takes far more self righteous ego to project God as the undeniable universal absolute known only to your particular favored translation, upbringing and adult experience than it takes to allow yourself to take sole responsibility for your own life, values, and perception of reality. In my opinion, of course- to answer your question.
Heard. If you think you're god, your argument is with God.
Do you suspect ALL OF THE BOOKS EVER?
Take a quick look at the dewey decimal system up to the fourth decimal place. The religion section alone is humongous due to the dominant christian urge to monopolize ideology.
Really I was talking about the kind of books that lead one to where you are at now, and where I used to be. I'm not a book-burning kind of person, but I've learned: It's garbage in, garbage out.
Please don't tear every book ever written apart cover to cover. Nobody would ever see you finish.
Figurative! Translated: If I had the time, I could analyze and refute the statements, premises and intentions of the above mentioned categories of books, at least the ones I have read and are aware of. Work with me here.
The bible did more good than harm because books don't do harm. Books only codify ideas. People, however, got lots of terrible ideas from lots of terrible books.
You could argue the bible is not one of those terrible books, but even you wouldn't believe you.
Sorry, you honestly kinda lost me there.
EDIT: If you don't believe a thing in the book, of course you're going to think the derived ideas are terrible. I just happen to have more to go on now than the book itself.