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While it is apparent that the Bible has essentially infected most of the minds of humanity with the idea of “magical thinking” over the past 1700 years, after the “official dogma/canon” version was politically driven to its most current starting point (I mean, now there are over 100 bibles for people to choose from currently, for almost any perspective, including the feminist perspective) at the convention/treaty of Nicaea in 325 AD.
The driving force of this treaty was to curtail the meandering and sometimes contradictory discourse that of course half remembered verbal histories told at relatively secret gathering places 300 years after the fact can do to a large volume of information. The convention/treaty lasted from May to August, had some political/religious leaders exiled and overall is a reasonable amount of time to make some sizable edits in both the amount and content of any document.

I think your presentations rightfully show that the bible is hypocritical, sexist, and at times diametrically opposed to itself, especially the many dicotomies present between the Old Testament and the New Testament, with the final fire and brimstone components of Revelations being another discrepancy between the loving God/Christ of the New Testament, and the one described in Revelations.

However, perhaps a more pertinent use of this medium would be to expose “The Narrative” of the Neo-Wahabiists who want to be at war with the rest of the world, because they think their way is best, even if they have had no success in gaining significant ground in any country Eastern, Middle, or Western for the extent of their movement(s) for the past 165 years.

Since there are many Muslims who are driven to establish peace and culture in and out of their native lands, perhaps your reading of the more ridiculous parts of “The Narrative” can shed a light on what people are mispercieving as a unified Muslim force is actually just a small splinter (less than (0.05%) or roughly 500,000 Muslims) believe and act upon against the world.

As one of the few original Aramaic bibles (still found and practiced, in of all places, Ethiopia) says: Love the Enemy which has been translated in most bibles as know the enemy as you know yourself, but has forgotten the “love” part, which means when you love the enemy as you love yourself then the hate between the two sides will be lost and only knowledge will remain, which then will produce a possibility for discourse and resolution with limited violence.

So here are some beginning sources for “The Narrative” and the effectiveness of attracting previously non-believers of Jihadi/Wahabiists viewpoints through this narrative is quite scary, as it shows the power of the story, and also hints at why Religion is so pervasive and so hard to remove from the minds infected with its magical thinking perspective.

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world/muslim-extremism-in-the-narrative-on-60-minutes_100354317.html
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/podcasts/fareedzakaria/site/2010/07/11/gps.podcast.7.11.cnn
This debate between Fareed Zakaria (interviewer) and Anjem Choudary (Jihadiist) takes place at 22:20 into the podcast.

Please consider this request, as it may be important to see how any narrative creates a pathway to belief that if not addressed could make it harder for people to be swayed from magical thinking in the future.