Is it easier to be a Christian if you don't read the bible?

I have been reading parts of the bible that I haven't read in years.... and whoa, man.

My partner says my problem is that I am reading it like a fundamentalist and that i need to look at it like more figuratively, more like literature, etcetera. Well sure. Some parts are more easily read in that way than others.

So... what if all the stories in the bible are just morality tales?
What then are the morals?
Don't get mad if God plays favorites? (Cain and Abel) Why wasn't Cain's sacrifice better? After all no innocent animals were killed in the making of Cain's sacrifice.....

What kind of God doesn't know a better solution than mass murder (the flood)? The God I believe in is smarter than this! Why does the smell of burning people/animals/whatever make God happy?

Wait I know why! It's because the religious cultural norms of the day gave a big thumbs up to all of that stuff.

Here are some other hopefully productive observations:

-the whole thing reads like a science experiment gone wrong... ok that's not productive!
-what was the actual "fall" about? Is God anti-knowledge?
- the kjv actually says that God repented? (Gen 6:6) Sort of goes against the God-is-perfect stuff.
-the old "why" didn't God know the people would do that, why did God punish people so harshly for something when it seems like the people were set up from the beginning
-why is God's insane seeming rage appeased by burning birds (Genesis 8: 20-21)? this is crazy!

Here is the difference: before I accepted this too deeply as a large part of Christianity and chucked the whole religion. Now, I understand my own life experience, and still believe in God, just not in this interpretation. More than saying anything about God, this says a lot of things to me about people, humanity and the need to find purpose/ create stories that define and guide our lives.

I'd be curious to know how others deal with some of more "insane" stuff in the bible. Do people just kind of ignore it and pretend like its not there? Do people sort of nod at it and then change the subject, as though entire books of the bible are unstable relatives not suitable for dinner conversation?

Or maybe the moral is more like this: Don't get frustrated when you read the Bible because the people who wrote the Bible were, like all of us, bound by their time and thus did a great job of making God look like an insane person when viewed from the perspective of thousands of years later.

that's about as generous toward a faith perspective as i can get.