How do atheists see Jesus' parables?

[Godscreated]

 You do not understand the story of the house built on the Rock, why should you understand the parable about the wedding feast and it's obvious you are not going to by the way you responded to it. Do you remember what Jesus said about the parables to His disciples, seems you are living proof of what Jesus said, and all you needed to do was look it up on a christian site to get the answer.

GC

Edit: Didn't see Huggy's first post before I posted this, it explains what Jesus told the disciples, you should read it.

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 You see he was invited but he didn't want those outside of the banquet to know he entered so he snuck in, as Huggy stated, he wanted the good things without properly attaining them. You might say he was a pretend Christian, the church is full of them unfortunately. 

GC

Oh, I think I understand them well enough. They're just bad metaphors, when given enough thought. You seem to be reading more into the wedding story than what is there. We don't know why the one guy at the wedding wasn't wearing the proper clothes, or why that even matters except to show how petty the king is. We didn't need Jesus to tell us his god was petty, though. This is the same guy that had a man stoned to death for picking up sticks on the wrong day of the week, after all.

No you do not understand and it's quite clear you don't. Funny how atheist who have no interest in the Bible believe they can give studied responses to it, I mean really why would you expect Christians especially the ones who come and stay here to take you seriously. Like Huggy said the one giving the wedding feast supplies the garments, do you know how he knows this? Because that is the way things were in those days the parable makes perfect sense to the ones god has enlightened, dark minds have trouble with lit subjects.

There's another nice story for you. We don't know why the dude was picking up sticks that day. Not supposed to work on the sabbath, but maybe he didn't think gathering kindling counted as work. Or maybe he'd been too busy to clean his yard the rest of the week, from doing real work. Doesn't matter I guess, because he gets killed, and the topic quickly changes to clothing.

Sure we know why he was picking up sticks on the Sabbath, he had all 6 previous days to do so and so he ignored God's command. He knew what the consequences would be for a blatant act against God. As Jesus told the Pharisees, the Sabbath was made for man, man wasn't made for the Sabbath. God gave it as a day of rest from a week of toil and in that rest man was to spend his time with God not himself. By the way I doubt the man had a yard to clean up, most didn't, wasn't a luxury they could afford.

It's hard to say which stories are meant to be literal, and which metaphorical. I guess the standard could be, if the literal interpretation of a story makes god look like a psychopath, then it's a metaphor.

 Not when one studies the whole Bible with the attitude to learn. The standard is to use the Bible to understand who God is and build a relationship with Him.

GC