re: #4 cat-tikvah

My point before was that many people vehemently defend what they claim is the literal word of God, which in this case is rife with mistranslations and in which interpretation is everything.
It seems a fundamental (no pun intended) human challenge to live in a free and open society and be able to navigate the cognitive dissonance in saying that your own religious truth is neither negated or threatened by someone else’s different religious truth.

Problem there is that you have to reject not only science and history, but also logic, as the Bible contradicts itself in several places. There is no arguing with such people, one can only hope to limit the amount of damage they can cause.