[greyfoxx39]

I don’t see any of that as one whit stranger than virgin birth, bodily ascent into heaven, the resurrection of the dead, talking snakes, burning bushes, or separating seas.

So, what is your chosen religion that doesn't fit your list?

[muir_redwoods]

What possible deficit in your upbring could provoke such a question? Can you provide any possible suggestion of significance to any answer I could make as regards the point I was making?

All religions, all, require one to accept elements of belief not necessarily reducible to reason. I have no objective problem accepting that Abraham intended to sacrifice his son. It requires faith to believe that Isaac was saved by divine intervention. Whether I am a Buddhist, a Baptist, a Hindu or a Jew matters not a bit in terms of the point made in the first sentence of this paragraph.