[Serious] Literal and Not Literal

[Belacqua]

In the interest of intellectual honesty, there is no maybe about it.

When there are writings that do not reflect reality, they are rightfully and reasonably labeled mythology. All religious writings are pure mythology.

Since religious writings do not reflect reality or how the natural world works, it is safe and credible to understand that god simply is not real and never existed except as an imaginative concept in the mind of fallible writers.

Agreed, I think all the narratives in holy books are mythology written by people. 

This doesn't mean that god doesn't exist; just that the books about him weren't written by him. To show that he doesn't exist, we'd need further arguments.