To atheists: Why do you help me?

In particular, Christianity's big scientific stumbling block is the OT. Accept it literally, the way it was meant to be taken, and you bumb heads with science. Big assumption there. Was it the "way it was meant to be taken?". Many Christian theologians, and equally Jewish ones, do not think so.

I don't believe that the authors of the Bible made many distinctions between what we would call allegory, metaphor and fact. Too true. Wish the fundamentalists understood that. And that they certainly had no concept of what science is.