John, it's also something else. It's merely another illustration in
these newsgroups of secular people who otherwise **** on the Bible and
who generally loathe Christians attempting to hold them to standards
of conduct they themselves ignore. Since they themselves have no
standards, and can't therefore be called hypocrites about anything,
they're now safe to label their betters as bad people, even though
they try but fail from time to time. Get it?

Who are these people you rant on about? I have never met any who meet
that description. Being secular does not mean not having standards, it's
just that ours tend to be based more on common sense and sound
reasoning than interpreting a book of inplausibilities and contradictions.