I'm beginning to think perhaps telling a very religious friend that God is no better than Hitler was a questionable decision.
Seriously. If you believe everything in the bible, god killed way more people.
So even though I'm an atheist, I was went to a catholic middle school, mostly because the public schools in the area were pretty bad.
Anyways, according to the religion teacher there, most of the Old Testament is supposed to be metaphorical. According to her, the only part of the bible that was actually supposed to have taken place was the New Testament. I have no idea if that's actually true about Catholicism or whether that's just her personal beliefs, but when I hear some of the more rational thinking I'm a bit less anti-religion.
On topic to both this discussion and this thread, earlier this year I had a bit of a revelation that we really don't know what anything is. We hear far fetched theories and scoff at them, but we really have no way of knowing if they're actually true. We know the structure of matter, from molecules to atoms to subatomic particles, which are made up of quarks, which are regulated by bosons, but we don't know what quarks or bosons are. We really have no idea how far the structure goes. We simply cannot disprove these strange theories, since we don't know how the universe was created. We know there was a big bang, but we don't know why.