Religious texts are works of fantasy. That’s just the most parsimonious description, currently. It fits the known evidence and pays rent much better than the postulation of an omnipotent entity that acts only in vague, constrained, idiosyncratic, and generally worthless ways (along with other entities that find just as little if not less justification in the evidence). It would be “writing off” if I declared it to be the case a priori, but as I said above, I’ve seen the opposing arguments.
Religious texts are works of fantasy. That’s just the most parsimonious description, currently. It fits the known evidence and pays rent much better than the postulation of an omnipotent entity that acts only in vague, constrained, idiosyncratic, and generally worthless ways (along with other entities that find just as little if not less justification in the evidence). It would be “writing off” if I declared it to be the case a priori, but as I said above, I’ve seen the opposing arguments.