"Most of those fundies never liked Catholicism anyway."
Having been raised as a Catholic, I remember the church referring to the Bible as an allegory. Just simply symbolic not literal.
Well, I began to read God's Word. According to God's Word, the Bible is not an allegory...it is literal.
I began to study church history and devote greater observation to church practices. I then compared that history and those practices to scripture. They were not compatible with the Word.
I am no longer a Catholic.
Compare the history of the Reformed Churches to scripture.
You might decide to turn to Judaism.
Way to go. I am no longer a Deist.
Oh, come now. The Latin church does not teach that Scripture is an allegory.
On the other hand, the Scriptures certainly contain allegories--read Proverbs.
It is a matter of discernment which passages are to be taken literally, and which are allegorical.
One must pick whether John or the synoptics correctly recorded the time of Christ's Crucifixion--as an Orthodox Christian I hold with St. John the Theologian, while the Latin church and most protestants hold with the synoptics, hence the controversy over 'azymes'. And if you pick the synoptic Gospels' chronology, then John's timing of the Crucifixion during the slaughter of the Paschal lambs is allegorical.
What warrant have you to insist that Genesis chapters 1 and 2 are to be read literally, and worse still with a sense of 'literal' based on a hermeneutic which didn't even exist at the time they were first written down--that of reading everything as if it were written by and for post-'Englightenment' rationalists--when the generation of Christians who were alive when the Church fixed the canon of Scripture didn't give them that reading? St. Basil the Great in his Hexaemeron--often held up as a patristic support for six-day literalism--early in the book writes, "It matters not whether you say 'day' or 'aeon', the thought is the same." St. Gregory of Nyssa describes the opening chapters of Genesis as "Doctrine in the guise of a narrative." Where do you get off insisting on literalism, misnaming the Holy Scriptures, 'the Word', when Christ Himself is the Word, as if they were a Christian Koran?