Is Allegorical Religion better than Fundamentalism?

[Angrboda]

Yes. There remains an philosophical problem in the background about how ANY material object or physical event can have any significance at all.

I can't speak on the philosophical side. But my guess from a psychological perspective is that allegory resembles other properties of our memory system.

That is to say, events we experience occur in a web of causality and consequence from which information can be extracted in order to guide behavior in similar or future events. In other words, we've learned something.

Allegory in the classical sense seems to be a more abstract and figurative imitation of this kind of learning.

I and another person at AD have repeated debates with a third person about whether you can control your emotions through reason. It always leaves me with a question which I find compelling, "If our reason is the steward, and we know that something is fiction, why do we cry at movies or get upset when a beloved character dies?"