Wait. What?

I've started reading the Bible again, and this time i am going to finish it (maybe). Last time I didn't even get through all of Genesis before I just put it down and said, Screw it. I finished all 60 pages of Genesis today and I feel like my head is going to explode from all the nonsensical stuff inside that little portion of the Bible. Why the hell am I reading this anyway? Oh that's right, because I'm tired of people saying that i don't understand anything because I haven't read the Bible, and i want to know what it is exactly that Jews and Christians believe in. I don't know if I can take the whole thing if Genesis is only the beginning, halfway through the story i had to stop myself from banging my head off the wall from the lack of sense. I mean, the one part about the Babel story actually made me say WTH out loud. All of man, united for once, lived in one area all speaking one language. They decided to build a great tower so they could reach Heaven and be close to God. One day, God came upon them and was glad that they were all together, "Look at that," he said, "They're doing pretty good, aren't they? Hmm, what to do, what to do... I know! Let's screw everything up for them!" He then proceeded to split Man up and send him in many directions and made them speak many different languages, thus the city was called Babel. Seriously? And don't even get me started on Sodom and Gomorrah or however you spell it. There are so many things that don't make any sense in this, I can't even name them all right off the top of my head.
But I WILL get through this, and hopefully onto a part that makes some sense. And then I'm going to start on the Qur'an.