Divine texts, flawed authors?

Re “Scholars try to reconcile ‘problematic’ religious texts,” Oct. 22

While I find it heartening that these scholars are spending time trying to find loopholes in the more embarrassing parts of their traditional texts, I could save them a lot of time and effort. Just accept the fact that your holy books are the product of human creativity, not divine revelation, and thus are subject to all the errors, exaggerations and fabrications as any other human effort.

If the Old or New Testaments, the Koran or any other religious tract contains passages that are problematic, it’s because the author was a flawed, imperfect human being. So rather than wasting your time bending over backward to reinterpret what the text is really saying, why not just set the books down, shake your neighbor’s hand, try to get along and just be nice to everyone?

Daniel Molitor

Pasadena