Will The Internet Kill Religion?

[Brian37]

So is that why many prominent atheist scholars use the Biblical narrative to corroborate the historical records of other Middle East cultures as well as the archaeological record?

Fictional stories still tend to contain true elements. If a scifi alien book mentions the geographic locations of cities, 41st century historians might use that to check their claims about 21st century geography.

I didn't understand your first post about Leviticus and the Ammonites.

So? Superman movies have depicted real cities like New York and San Francisco. Godzilla movies have depicted Tokyo. The original book Peter Pan mentions the city of London.

Some dumbass movie maker a couple years ago made a movie about Abe Lincoln being a vampire slayer.

In antiquity both in politics and in religion, both polytheism and monotheism, the writings were often peppered with real people and places to lend the legends and bullshit stories credibility. No real place or person you read about in or outside a holy book will ever make magic or invisible beings real. Otherwise if that were the case then the Oracle in the Oedipus Rex play was a real prophet because the play mentioned real places.