Isn't it funny how mythical events and ficticious events both leave the exact same type of evidence? NONE.
Why do you think people write those stories, just to entertain you? Or perhaps they are trying to convey to you a view of reality that is new to you. That is different from yours, and that you may find more useful and truthful than the one you now hold. You seem to be implying that fiction is a lie of some sort. But in many ways fiction can reveal the truth better than reality does. How can you not see this?
If someone claims there was an event, and there is no evidence of that event when it should have reasonably left evidence behind, what is the most rational conclusion? That magic sky man came and removed all the evidence because of reasons, or the event never actually happened?
The Star Wars Trilogy claimed events happened that have no substantiating evidence, whatever. And yet those stories revealed some truths about life and reality to a lot of people that they hadn't been able to recognize and appreciate, before reading them. Why can't you afford the same credit to religious myths, when so many people tell you that they derived similar life lessons from them? Are you just that prejudiced against anything religious?
And thus can't be assumed to be factual accounts. So a mythical story about an event does not mean that the event actually happened - juts like what is in the Bible.
One can assume them to be factual if they want to when there is no way of proving them otherwise. Maybe those events in the Star Wars Trilogy really did happen in that galaxy far, far away. Or maybe those events happened, but not exactly as the story tells of them. There is no way for you or I to determine this. So why are you spouting off so adamantly about how the Bible stories are absolutely not true, when they certainly could be at least partly true, and when you and I weren't there, and so can't know what really happened and what didn't? Again, this looks to me like pure bias on your part, based on the fact that these specific stories are part of a religious agenda.
I'm saying that the entire Bible is nothing more than a collection of stories that probably have little to no bearing on reality at all.
But what you don't seem to understand is that you don't get to decide how they 'bear on reality' because you have no way of actually knowing this. You wouldn't presume to tell everyone else that they can't find any significant meaning and truth in the Star Wars Trilogy, would you? So why are you spouting off about how outrageous you think it is that anyone would find such meaning or truth in biblical mythology? Especially when religious mythology is designed and intended to do exactly that for people.