(July 3, 2015 at 4:01 pm)whateverist Wrote: ...
She is suggesting an intelligent, allegorical reading of the bible. ...
No she isn't suggesting an intelligent reading of the Bible, and you would realize that if you read every post before your post. She is saying it is myth, but she is pretending that the stories do not say what they say, and is pretending that the stories somehow say something else. For one example, in the story of Abraham and Isaac (Genesis 22), she pretends that killing Isaac is not god's idea, and that god is not pleased with Abraham for being willing to kill Isaac when god tells him to do so. Whether the story literally happened or is just a myth or allegory, in the story, god is the one who tells Abraham to kill Isaac, and God is pleased with Abraham for being willing to kill Isaac.
There is a difference between regarding a story as an allegory, and pretending that the story says something other than what it actually says. She is not doing an intelligent reading of it; she is basically not reading it at all and pretending it says something other than what it says.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
