Hell, even much basic Christian theology can't be found in the Bible. Take the Trinity. Think it's in the New Testament? Maybe the gospels? Maybe Paul's letters?

Think again. The doctrine of the Trinity was not formulated and enforced until hundreds of years after the deaths of Jesus and Paul. It is not possible to read the Bible and come up with the doctrine of the Trinity as it exists in Christianity today. (Think I'm wrong? Look up the fine points of the Trinity as debated by early Church leaders.)

In fact, it's so impossible that vast amounts of blood was spilled in the early Church as leaders literally duked it out over how the Trinity supposedly worked.

Bishops hired gladiators to kill Christian thinkers who had even slightly different ideas about a triune god. Eventually, entire communities were put to the sword. In some cases, the violence rose to the level of genocide. (Google "Arian heresy" for details.)

All this because Christians could not agree about what the Bible says about the Trinity —for good reason. It ain't in there.

What the Bible says might be able to justify the presupposition of a three-person god that is simultaneously one person ... but it also might not. And plenty of early Christians thought not, in good faith. Other Christians killed them over it.

Then as today, Christians have the tendency to be pretty disgusting people. Killing folks over absolutely nothing, and then claiming it's biblical.

That's just one of the reasons I despise traditional Christianity. Then as today, it elevates howlingly ignorant bullshit to such high levels that Christians feel morally justified persecuting people.

Then as today, many Christians were violent monsters.