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I took a random sample. I chose five at random. Those samples were inaccurate. Therefore, I can conclude with certaintity, that the data set is mostly inaccurate. Which is not surprising given the large size of the set. When dealing with factual contridictions, you must examine the historical context, breadth of the text, and related text to the original in question. The Bible is not the only holy book in the Christian mythos.
When dealing with all of these as a whole, you do find some rather interesting contradictions. Some that are hotly debated today in the church. But it's not nearly to the scale of what the graph depicts. I'm perfectly fine discussing inaccuracies, contradictions, similarities to other mythos. Frankly, I love it. But I don't like graphs like this because they're often riddled with inaccuracies and immediately shut down all the incredible discussion these mythos from these sacred texts that people have written over thousands of years and have cared, died, and fought over. It's rather dismissive and haughty, and I don't care for it; in a data based forum.
Edit: minor grammatical errors. Changed comma to period.
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