The Bible should be treated exactly for what it is an ancient text relating the myths, legends, and stories of a minor early civilization and their attempts to explain nature. It started with mountain lions, progressed to credibility, and somehow ended with religion. Nice people are sometimes misinformed, wrong, and harmful regardless of their good intentions, particularly if their intentions are to debase a class of people for no reason other than what is commanded in an outdated, internally inconsistent text that has no proof of accuracy or authorship. Answer these simple questions. If you prefer to disregard ancient myths of questionable origin and choose to live according to reason for the benefit of humanity in this world, thank you.
Someone has to tend the planet.
In the same sense that we are a Christian nation, we are also a horny, heavier that we should be, beer drinking, football watching nation. Maybe the Republicans aren't promoting a religious agenda. Maybe we just need more of it when they are in office. There is no valid evidence none that we have been visited by extraterrestrials. No extraordinary evidence has been presented to defend the extraordinary claims.