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Originally Posted by Torture
The thing most atheists don't understand is that most religious people view the bible as allegory and metaphor as well.
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I think the atheists who have given it some serious thought or have spent any time researching religion do. And any atheists who know people from the "allegory" majority would know too, so I'm not sure I agree with "most", but I'm sure some percentage don't.
I've certainly run into a lot of "they don't really believe that though do they?" among atheists and agnostics when beliefs like a 6000 year old earth come up, so the opposite exists as well.
And part of it is perception, an atheist may fully well understand that the majority of Christians view the flood as a myth, so when they give some reasons the flood is mythical, they aren't talking to that majority, because there's no disagreement. So does it just appear that they don't think that majority is there, and in fact it's just because they're focusing their discussion with someone else?