Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
Most modern day christian's would say those stories are meant to be read as metaphor.
I'd contend that even as metaphor, they're still garbled nonsense.
Some of it is. It also contains a sophisticated narrative from beginning to end about sacrifice. I think that narrative is on the order greater than what humans naturally consider in their lives.

But yeah, I left the religion in part because the apologetics were so bad.