[Elsie]

Don't forget all the stars falling to earth on judgement day (that'll be c. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of them. And apparently 1/3 of them already fell, swished by Lucifer's tail.

Are you one of those who can't tell allegory from reality?

SOMEONE in this thread has harped on that. (No, that's NOT singing with a large stringed instrument.)

[Thatcherite]

Are you one of those who can't tell allegory from reality?

No, I'm not one of those people who are so credulous that they think that tales of magic fruit, talking snakes, angels with flaming swords, the entire world ecology being saved on a wooden boat, and God feeling threatened by a tower built by bronze-age people isn't allegorical. It's you who cannot tell allegory from reality.

Stories of stars falling to earth are much less clearly allegorical than those things. Up to 250 years ago, when the nature of the stars first started to be understood, the idea of them falling to earth was more reasonable than much in the Bible that you take literally. Only modern cosmology has revealed the sheer number of stars and their nature. The writers of the Bible would have laughed at the idea that stars are the same class of object as the sun.