I grew up going to a Christian church: Sunday school when I was younger, then youth choir on Wednesday nights, then regular church service for a couple of years

I grew up going to a Christian church: Sunday school when I was younger, then youth choir on Wednesday nights, then regular church service for a couple of years in my early teens. I sort of grew out of it as I got older, because as I started thinking about it more, it made less and less sense. For example, I distinctly remember our youth group leader, who was the wife of the minister, saying in one of our classes that we have to fear God. I didn't get it, and asked her "Why are we supposed to fear someone that loves us?" She didn't have a good answer, because there isn't one; it's another one of those things the Bible says that makes no sense. At some point, for me, there were too many of those and I could no longer pretend that Christianity made sense. To me, the Bible is a major problem for Christianity. If you believe the whole thing, it makes no sense. If you don't believe the whole thing, then it becomes a fragmenting thing where some groups pick and choose these parts and other groups pick and choose different parts. But once you go down the road of "I only believe part of it, you can't take it literally, la la la", you're on a very slippery slope. The Bible is a story book, written by man. It has some good stories, some good advice, and some bad advice. There is no hard scientific evidence that any of the miraculous things that supposedly occurred really did occur. Religious people believe that the Bible is the "word of God". One of my big problems with the Bible is that if it truly was the word of God, doesn't it seem reasonable that he would give us some clues about how we fit into the universe? I mean, our whole planet is a spec of dust in the grand scheme of things. If God invented all this, and the Bible is a sort of road map, wouldn't it make sense to talk a little about the other parts of the universe - the overwhelmingly huge part - and not just our little planet?