It is foolish to judge anyone by their religion. In most cases, people simply adopt whatever religion their parents practiced. Lots of people I have come in contact with who claim to believe in the Bible, have never read the thing, I have heard preachers quote passages from the Bible that are not in the Bible at all. I have read the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, with a concordance and without one, completely through twice, and many passages more than that.
I am not a Biblical "scholar" because that generally refers to someone who actually believes the Bible is the word of God, and I don't.
God, as described in the Bible, is obviously a man-made creation, much of it poorly made at that,