Atheist Fundamentalism

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I, as a non-believer, am not responsible in any shape or form for the beliefs of people and degree to which they adhere to the rules and guidelines within their holy text.

The issue , as you allude to, is that's it's impossible to determine to what degree someone follows their holy book. Literalists wear their heart on their sleeve, but apologists will often pick and choose, and sometimes adapt their interpretation to the context in hand, whatever it might be.

I'm sorry but whenever someone says 'I'm a Muslim' I automatically take it as given that they espouse everything written in the Quran. Why? Because that's what being a Muslim entails. Would it not be blasphemy to reject part of the word of Allah as interpreted by Mohammed?

Same with the bible. Nowhere does it say 'this story is allegorical', so how on earth are we supposed to know when talking to a theist what part they accept and what part they reject unless it comes up in discussion?

Why some sorts and accepted and others not is another debate entirely, though.