What Mormonism teaches me about religion

[RainDog]

32. Yes. This "gradation" of belief is how people say "I'm not like that"

Someone from outside of a religious belief system would put the virgin birth story right up there with Athena springing from the head of Zeus.

The idea that a human would become the "final sacrifice," rather than a goat once a year, is a barbaric idea outside of that belief system.

The idea that someone was dead for three days - and came back to life - the only way anyone would believe that now is if someone had been given datura or other zombifying tinctures that come out of another particular religious tradition that "kills" and "resurrects" people and turns them into slaves.

If someone wants to argue there is reality beyond our five senses - that still doesn't undo reality in which we live and never has, unless someone believes in supernatural events that happened ancient history. Why believe some of those stories and not the other ones at the same time?