Lib: if you're leaving out the bad, gruesome parts now, who's to say that in 25 years, it won't be common practice to ignore all those inconvenient parts about homosexuals, sodomites and so on.
To me, religion is not a set of laws, since as we have seen, those laws bend, and rightly so, to cultural progress. If thats all religion is, just going through the motions (and I'm not implying that that is what it is for you, just in general) then frankly I don't see the point. It ought to be something deeper, no? Thats what so bothersome to me about some of the more extremist preachers and evangelsists right now, they take the letter of the Bible over the content. What happened to tolerance, piety, and peace (turn the other cheek). It seems to me that, while supposedly representing Christianity, people like Pat Robertson & Co are really misrepresenting it, to the point that they have turned 180 degrees from some of the more fundamental aspect of the faith.
Or thats the way it seems to me.