The Uncleanliness of Women

The Lord said to Moses in Leviticus 12:1-5 that a woman will be twice as unclean after giving birth to a baby girl than to a baby boy.

1Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: 'When a woman gives birth and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean for seven days, as in the days of her menstruation she shall be unclean.
3'On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
4'Then she shall remain in the blood of her purification for thirty-three days; she shall not touch any consecrated thing, nor enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are completed.
5'But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall remain in the blood of her purification for sixty-six days.

Hmmm, did a bronze age people invent these laws and place them in the mouth of God; or is God really that sexist?

Is Beauty only Skin Deep?

"The Lord said to Moses" in Leviticus 21:16-23 that no priest with a physical defect may approach the alter to give a sacrifice, otherwise he would defile God's sanctuary.

16 The LORD said to Moses, 17 "Say to Aaron: 'For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God. 18 No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed; 19 no man with a crippled foot or hand, 20 or who is hunchbacked or dwarfed, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles. 21 No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the offerings made to the LORD by fire. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God. 22 He may eat the most holy food of his God, as well as the holy food; 23 yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.' "

I had no idea God was that superficial that physically disabled people would desecrate his sanctuary. What on earth does outward appearance have to do with the quality of an individual? Have we learned something in the 21st century that Jehovah hasn't?

Unwarranted Skepticism?

Should we believe the gospel accounts of Jesus?

Should the existence of other apocryphal writings (i.e. Gospels of Thomas, Peter, and Mary) cast any doubt on the trustworthiness of the Bible?

If we look around we'll notice a trend. People are disposed to writing religious fiction and a great many people are inexorably inclined to believe it. If we pick any religion as the truth, we are left with the incorrigible fact that billions have believed a lie. People write religious books and credulous people believe them. Fact. Just look around! (i.e. Book of Mormon)

So how should the Bible, bulging with stories of the fantastical, be viewed in light of this fact? Simple reasoning and common sense tell us to assume the Bible to be false, in line with all the other religious books and beliefs that have been held sacred over the centuries.

With this in mind, what Christian evidences could possibly trump these tenable, unequivocal facts that people write religious nonsense and credulous people continually scoop it up like ice cream?