Thanks! I went to Catholic school for 12 years, and I always tell people that we were taught not to interpret the Bible literally. My religion teacher even went over all of the stuff in the OT that totally contradicts everything else, and then put all of the those crazy rules into historical context.
Christianity is all about "love thy neighbor", not about surrendering all thought processes to God and licking his anus.
Sorry, kind of off topic, but I saw your post and thought, "Man, that's exactly how I start my arguments on Christianity". I always thought that I went to some bizarre school that taught some ultra liberal perspective. Glad to know I'm not the only one...