Unless people who wrote it were inspired by some divine voice, then yes, I agree. 
Well obviously!
Anyway, some sections of the bible are open to interpretation yet people still take them literally. That's the fringe though. But I never see the moderate majority campaign against extremists of the same religion. That would be encouraging. They usually however do their protesting from their arm chairs.
Other passages are pretty hard to interpret any other way.
I'm always a little upset how religious people can't just say, "The bible is extremely barbaric and evil in places but I believe the people who wrote it misunderstood God's real message", or something like that. Or, "I believe God wrote the nice bits and early pre-civilised humans wrote the nasty bits to excuse the evil they committed".
Instead they (often) say, "Blah blah, you can't take the bible literally." The responses I get are usually so fluffy.
Let's be real about this. The bible, yeah, the Old Testament mostly, is full of hate. The hate is worse than any hate I've ever heard about.
God may still exist, God still may be loving. But if we go by the assumption that the bible is a divine book authored by God, then God is more evil and oppressing than most people that have ever been alive throughout history.
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