Cynical? moi? Deeply. 10 years in the Army will do that to you.
But to answer you further... my problem is with people who INSIST on taking it as the ACTUAL word of God, rather than the work of humans INSPIRED by God. And people who do this, are generally the ones guilty of forcing their views onto other people. Pick an issue, racism, sexuality, evolution, whatever... they have views on a subject that, for whatever reason, they feel they must enforce in everyone else, and they then use the Bible to back them up:
"we can bash gay people because it says in the Bible"
"we shouldn't teach our kids about science, because science contradicts the Bible"
"we should practice female circumcision, because women belong to men (like it says in the bible) and this will stop them straying"
Without paying regard to changes in society and human knowledge, you create problems for yourself, and thats fine if you keep it to yourself. But often, people DON'T. And as an informed, educated, and (I hope) intelligent Christian, I feel that if I can pursuade anyone out there that maybe the Bible DOESN'T have ALL the answers, and that God would like us to use our BRAINS as well as his guidebook, than in a small way I might help people get a clearer view of the world.
Further, God gives us a universe where we are capable of learning about it scientifically, and gives us brains that are capable of understanding results from that science... Do you really think that he doesn't want us to use those gifts? People who believe the Bible tells them otherwise upset me greatly.
Imagine if you will, your most beloved child. For his birthday, you give that child the most wonderful, exciting, expensive, educational and fun toy ever created. How would you feel if the child then refuses to take the damn thing out of the box, and acts as though the pictures on the box are the point of the thing, rather than whats inside?