[Solace]

Wow, it strikes me as remarkably short-sighted that you chastise me for "a matter of intellectual honesty and integrity" and then try to justify a faith to which you feel the need to add a qualifier "Not all of us accept everything that is written in the Bible." So you practice selective Christianity then. If you agree with what's written in the scripture you believe it, but if the scripture calls into question your preset conclusions of how and what things are, you write it off as irrelevant. (And I'm not talking about stories that defy science, like the flood. I'm talking about passages that confront your notions of who and what God's children are, idealogy about their nature, and so on...) It's no wonder then that non-Christians look at professing Christians and scratch their heads. You say to them, read the Bible, you can learn something worth knowing, but just skip those passages that call into question my idealogy.