Freud vs. Marx - Religion - Response to Dom Cooper's Response

I agree with you that it is problematic when people interpret the bible "literally." However I believe interpreting the bible is a little more complex than interpreting a Christmas story. While I believe the key points in both are the morals, the difference is there is some factual truth to the bible. Most scholars would agree that Jesus did exist, or that he was crucified. this is where I believe the difficulty comes in, which stories to take literally and which ones to just take the morals away. My rule of thumb would be always accept the most logical, and least miraculous explanation. The whole point of this post is that I believe interpreting the bible can be tricky because some of the writing have some "literal" truth to them, while others are just morals.