WOTMQ: Metaphors
When the religious don't like, or simply can't support a particular idea, dogma, verse in their Holy Books, etc... they will often reinterpret whatever is bothering them, turning it into a metaphor. This doesn't always work very well though. Some ideas have no metaphorical value whatsoever — like killing a non-virgin girl or homosexual. Nor did God give any clear instructions on how and when to do that. The religious just kind of make things up as they go along. #lifeofbrian
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And what's the metaphor for being turned into a pillar of salt for rubber necking a catastrophe? Or have a couple of she-bears rip apart children for daring to utter that someone is bald? Or cursing a fig tree for not being fruitful? Or sending a herd of swine to drown? Or walking on water (or did he turn it into wine on that occasion also)? Cheeeeses Crust, believers: why don't you just admit that it's all Iron Age fairy tales?
You should probably be writing these.