I agree with you entirely. It isn't hard to pick out the parts that manipulate people into subservience. This is the part of "Faith" that requires you to forget about logic and critical thing and go forward blindly on "Faith" and unfortunately it appears many do.
I did read the rest of it. Beautiful? Some parts (the Red Letter version is especially so). Did that undo the horrible parts. No.
If we ignore the wrong things written there just to say "It is good", then we have thrown objectivity out the window.
The same for the rest of the religious books. If at some point it calls for or justifies killing others, then that is just wrong.
You don't give serial killers kudos just because they also give to charity.
I agree with you entirely. It isn't hard to pick out the parts that manipulate people into subservience. This is the part of "Faith" that requires you to forget about logic and critical thing and go forward blindly on "Faith" and unfortunately it appears many do.