The fact that the bible was written over 1500 years by scores of authors, many anonymous, in different languages very much weakens the argument that it is a reliable account of events occurring more than 2000 years ago. You will be aware that large sections of earlier bibles were added and deleted at will which means for long periods of time pious christians believed their version was the right one. I don´t suppose you see a major problem with this!

"Are these books consistent and just? Are they logical and consistent?"
- It condones genocide, rape, infanticide. Not even the most contemporary authors to Jesus (Matthew and Luke) can agree. Logical? That´s funny.

"Have these books spread to the four corners of the world and effected the history of the world, like no other?"
- So marginally better than the Koran then!

Likely:
- Getting drunk with his mates before important events.
- Not much of a worker, travels quite a lot.

Unlikely:
- Suspending the laws of physics.

"The reality is that paedophiles do not go near or next to confession in the Catholic religion or any other religion"

What concerns many is being trapped in a confessional with one.

"The Bible is a supernatural book and unlike any other"

There is nothing unique about the bible. It is among scores of other literature detailing other gods with similar claims. In fact, if you study the religions that preceded the creation of the bible you will find the authors of the bible were plagiarists, and the so-called miracles attributed to Jesus, such as virgin birth, crucifixion, resurrection, raising the dead, had all been done before by other gods. There is a debate to be had as to whether a man called Jesus ever existed. However, if he existed at all, he was likely nothing more than a wine guzzling vagrant from the middle east.

It might not be a good time to tell him the importance of evolutionary biology in the development of his antibiotic treatments.

"Well niamh, we're not all like that, say there is 200 million priests in the world and 5 per cent of them are paedophiles, thats still only 10 million." - Father Ted.

Agreed. This type of christian make normal levels of stupid look positively reasonable.

"I cant put a figure on it, no. But you can google it"

Jesus!!

"I dont follow were torture comes in to this at all"

No surprise there. Children burning in a furnace with no escape from their suffering is a great act of parenting by the mighty one?

In the words of the great Stephen Fry "So you're offended. So F-ing what?"

Indeed. Torture your children to show them the error of their ways. How beautiful.
Or perhaps do everyone a favour and don't have children.