The most important reason anyone is an atheist

[Fidel_Castronaut]

What part of proponents don't you understand? Please read what people are writing before you reply. Thanks.

Saint Timothy and the early Christians of the first church weren't proponents of Christianity then?

Did I say 'they' weren't?

So, what, the biblical literalists of Westboro aren't proponents then? The countless numbers of people from times gone by who have used a literalist interpretation of biblical texts to denounce (and often kill) their enemies aren't proponents either?

Are you actually saying that the bible was written, initially through its formation and collation of texts, not as a literal interpretation of how those events occurred (from Genesis right through) but as some sort of allegory?

In effect,you're admitting that the bible is just a fiction? I know a few people on this very forum who believe that the story of Adam and Eve is a literal and accurate description of the truth of how man first walked this 6000~ Y/O earth. I invite them to debate you on this point now. There are quite a few hundred million more out there in the real world too (depends on ones definition of real I guess).

What is the bible going to rebuke, then, as Timothy supposedly points out, if there is no real historic substance to it? Or is only some accurate history, and the other parts are just filler?

Don't get me wrong, SOC, I admire someone who agrees with 'us' mean old atheists that the bible isn't really a good conveyor of anything when talking about historic accuracy.