"Monotheism is evil itself."
You could be a troll, but I'll guess you're not, and respond to some of your anti-christianity, that, was expressed much as I probably would have expressed it 10 or 20 years ago when I was still a lifelong atheist.
As to the bible referring to people allegorically as 'sheep', yes. The bible speaks of people allegorically and parable-ly(parabolicly can't be right :)), in many ways. A whole lot of 'flocks' and 'sheeps', and perhaps more than that, as fields of crops and other such collections to be harvested by God. What you might interestingly trip out on, is how it is perhaps your belief, that in all the life in the universe, or perhaps an isolated pond of it here on earth, you believe that you are of the one single unique species that is not, effectively going to be harvested or otherwise feeding and providing needs of a larger ecosystem, so complex you're limited grey-matter faculties cannot even begin to fully comprehend.
As for your point about translations- translations are all we have, and if you think about it, the best we could have, so I'd advize you come to grips with that, and begin to appreciate translations, if imperfect and/or varying, rather than arrogantly cast them asside as unworthy of respect and educational value.
As to "the whole Christian promotion of ignorance with regards to Abortion/Global Warming etc"... Stereotype much? One of the key first things I learned as a christian when I became a christian, was how non-homogoneous (not a sexuality thing, read slowly) christians are as a whole. Once you, Phrogman, get to the point of spending more effort looking at how others might actually be people roughly as smart and decent as you despite their strange beliefs you clearly despise, you will see that Christians as a whole have incredibly varied personal positions with regards to Abortion/Global Warming, etc. Perhaps as much variance as non-christians. I mean, there was this whole roman catholic, protestant, martin luther, thing in history you might want to look up. Don't get me wrong, I had a similarly vile view of christianity 15 years ago. You might have a pretty different view 15 years from now. Even today, I'll certainly grant a kernel of truth within your second to last sentence. Maybe by the time you are willing to spend more time granting a kernel of truth in the teachings of various mainstream religions, you will agree that blindly hating christians is about as useless as blindly hating anti-christians.
As to the further ancestors of this thread, and Jesus wielding a whip in the temple. First, I imagine one could wield a whip and drive people and/or animals from an area, without actually inflicting violent contact with humans (I'm inexperienced with cattle to know if warning shots are sufficient there). Next, the beginning of christian humility for some might be to reflect on, in context, the story of Jesus getting angry in the temple on that occasion. It's pretty remarkable, as there really aren't that many stories in the bible of Jesus getting angry. One could take that as a cue to meditate on the story in particular. Clearly it is an interesting example of the kind of vitriol animosity towards the established mainstream religion of the day, and how it was practiced, that you Phrogman, could perhaps appreciate in a 'through the looking glass' sort of way.
