Testimony: Are we being hypocritical?

[Aoi Magi]

I wasn't quite sure where to put this.

In light of everything going on in the county right now with powerful men and sexual assault/harassment, it got me thinking about our past discussions regarding testimony as evidence.  Though there were some nuanced differences of opinion among the atheists who participated in those discussions, on the whole it seems most of us hold the position that testimony is not evidence, and that quantity speaks nothing of quality.  Are we being hypocritical then, in accepting these allegations at face value?  If we're being true to our stated position, then we're either:

1. Accepting a serious claim as true a despite total lack of evidence 

Or

2. Accepting the testimony as evidence 

To be clear, I'm not suggesting that we shouldn't believe these women.  I'm also not conceding that the Bible qualifies as eye-witness testimony.  I'm just wondering if we've been unfairly rigid to our theists in these debates regarding the nature of evidence.  

Thoughts?

Let's say a woman claims she has been raped. There's not much room for her misunderstanding what had happened to her, moreover in most situations her claim is testable. On the other hand, if there is a n extraordinary claim like the sun dancing in the sky, only for a specific few individuals, not only does it leave room for a lot of ways the event could have been misinterpreted, but it is mostly untestable and moreover contradicts our known reality.