If you've ever question beliefs  that you hold you're not alone  But you oughtta realize that  every myth is a metaphor  in the case of Christianity  and Judaism there exist the  belief that spiritual matters are  enslaved to history  The Buddhists believe that the  functional aspects override  the myth while other religions  use the literal core to build  foundations with  See half the world sees the myth  as fact while it's seen as a lie  by the other half and the simple  truth is that it's none of that  and somehow no matter what the  world keeps turning  Somehow we get by without ever learning  Science and religion are no  mutually exclusive  In fact for better understanding  we take the facts of science  and apply them  And if both factors keep evolving  then we continue getting information  but closing off possibilities makes  it hard to see the bigger picture  Consider the case of  the women whose faith helped  her make it through when she  was raped and cut up left for dead  in a trunk her beliefs held true  It doesn't matter if it's  real or not cause some things  are better left without a doubt and  if it works then it gets the job done