The bible..
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why would you point to an entry on wikipedia detailing the deadsea scrolls as defending the 'accuracy' of the old testament ?
Somone found some manuscripts from 100bc-100ad, they were copies of stories that had been told to those before, and they had written them down...
None of which does, or ever could, because its unprovable, unlikely, impossible and downright deceptive and childish to do so, prove that any of it is a) accurate, or b) the temporary incursion into the 'real' world, for vague and contradictory literary purposes, of a primal, judgmental 'creator', who for the large part does not decree such inconsistent ramblings any more, and indeed did not at that time.
Does anyone honestly believe that before Moses returned from the mountain with the ten commandments, that people went about unaware that murder, theft etc were wrong ?
Religion as a whole has contributed nothing to this world. No unique morality, no provable, unique or useful insight into the nature of the universe, or of mankinds place in it, indeed whenever it has attempted to do this it has time and time again been proved wrong, whilst all the time urging its 'faithful' to believe arbitrary at best, and downright evil and pernicious at worst, doctrines, by which elites extend their influence power and money.
The world and everyone in it would be by far the better for this folly.