A quarter of British Christians do not believe in the resurection

[Brian37]

Does describing oneself as Christian make it so ?

I subscribe to the idea that what a xtian believes is empirical.  Just ask them.  The role of the bible, resurrection and salvation do not play a definitional role.  Otherwise we fall into the "no true xtian" rut that they do.  Plus, I feel the same way about finding out what atheists believe: ask us.

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This is the hypocrisy of every religion. If you keep watering every story down to metaphor what the fuck is the point in buying the book at all? I have the same problem with Jews who call themselves "secular Jews", those whom like the tradition but don't buy the magic stories.

Humans don't understand that the further back in time you go, the more the fantastic claims were taken seriously as true. 

None of it should be taken seriously, that was then, this is now. 

Back then most humans believed in the purity of virgin births. Even in Buddhism the first mythology of his character had his mother Queen Maya giving birth to him avoiding the vagina.

Nobody survives the death myth if you attempted that in reality and killed someone like that in reality. But back then the readers really believed it. 

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I see no point in continuing to relegate more and more of a book to metaphor. How about realizing that was then and this is now and we know better now.

I take the opposite approach.  It should all be taken as metaphor.

Yes and no. If taking something as metaphor will make you less violent and less political, I agree. But if it is all metaphor then why buy it in the first place? I like the motifs in Star Wars but I am not about to start a political party or war over that movie series.