And that's the thing. Having read some other books I can tell that there's nothing good in the bible that I can't find somewhere else, if I am looking. However, I think there are certain confusions that can generate from these particular books (all that follow Abraham) and the way they are written which in my opinion is enough to avoid them.
It's like in Steemit, I might FOLLOW some blogs with authors that have spoken some truth about a subject and yet I don't agree with on another. Because I don't agree with them it doesn't mean I don't think they can't contribute, I've seen them do it in the past and that is why I am following them. But then there are other authors I don't follow because what they speak doesn't resonate with me and this doesn't mean they are lying, but they are not speaking to any truth I can understand. This could change later on and if that were the case I wouldn't have a problem subscribing.
But then there are those I have followed and they get stuck in one message, and they keep posting the same article over and over again that still doesn't make sense regardless of its wording, at some point I'd feel that they are taking too much of my ATTENTION with a message I may have even confronted them about and still makes no sense. It is a problem when my attention is diverted from the stuff I want to focus on to stuff that I may consider to be irrelevant, and this is why we can UNFOLLOW.
If the user keeps spamming (because that's how I consider lies) the new tab and I feel they are still distracting me even when I am not following, then I can go ahead and MUTE them which I'm glad I haven't had to do here on Steemit yet.
But what happens when it's several users that are posting the same non-sensical stuff? The only way to avoid it is to cathegorize it, but even if you could name it we still don't have a feature to MUTE TAGS on Steemit, hopefully soon. IRL it would be a little more difficult mute a subject when it bothers us without keeping the speaker from their right to expression because we can't disconnect our ears or sight. But I like the options that we have on the internet, things can be more flexible here.
I don't mind the believers of this stuff, I don't want to mute them or anyone, I'd just like to be able to individually/personally avoid certain circles/cycles of repetition that in my understanding don't lead anywhere. By the same token we also need the ability to follow the subjects that we want to focus on, not just the people who may have spoken once about them.
If we could mute tags I would mute #bible along with other similar texts, but I am sure others would follow the subject, and that's okay as long as I have an option not to.