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How, Chief! Me-um no god. Me-um turtle. Something wrong with Kosher Horse. Horse say you heap big silly. Sitting Bulldozer agree.

Just the opposite. They're (I'm assuming that's what you meant to say) worthy precisely because you don't believe it, simply by virtue that many people do, so it's imperative that you are at least aware of it and understand it. Otherwise, you are forming opinions about people and what motivates...

Hence the term... "extremists."

Then they're not reading the Bible. <snort> Thereare plenty of extremists on both sides, Christians and atheists.

Same reason believers have little tolerance for non-believers.

He's got his own special definitions for most words. I'm sure it means whatever he thinks it means.

No, non-scripture allegory is always allegory. It doesn't magically (or Divinely) become literal depending on what you want it to say.

Not really. They're both the result of religious fervor substantiated only by pure belief and junk science which allows varied, fluid and creative interpretations of events.

If you call someone another name, pathetic grammar and punctuation notwithstanding, your 15th round bell is gonna ding and you'll be done.

Religious texts are worthy of study in order to be fully cognizant of how significant portions of the society around you live their lives, believe what they believe, and the motivations for doing what they do. To ignore it, dismiss it, or be afraid of it is counterintuitive to rational intelligence.

Like I said earlier, literal, allegory, parable, metaphor, sometimes all at once at the same time, is a very Church Lady "conveeeeenient" way to make it say what you want or need it to say.

Just not both.

Naaa. I'd much rather people remember the information that helps them, than who it was who gave it to 'em. One is far more important than the other. :D

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Denver wuz framed!

I like how it can be be literal or figurative, sometimes both at the same time, depending on what you need it to say.

Yeah, the one thing men cannot do is read a woman's mind, yet that the one thing we get in the most trouble for when we fail to do so.