It also seems silly to bring up the mythical status of the bible in any sort of religious argument. Clearly the religious significance of the Bible and how it's interpreted is irrelevant to the historical accuracy of it. Imagine being a retarded atheist going into a church and arguing that the Bible isn't true. Wrong audience.

Well, that's the thing, though - it's really only American Evangelical Fundamentalists who believe that every word of the Bible is the literal word of God, and that if it's in the Bible, it happened.

Other denominations see the Bible as more of a tool - as God saying "Here are texts to help strengthen the bond between you and me." So God wants us to see that somewhere around 600 BCE, these were the rules of the Israeli temple. And God wants us to see that a little bit later than that, the Israelis were saying "We are writing down our oral traditions about King David."

And if God is telling you both "The Israeli temple found gay sex so impure they'd kill you" and "The Israeli people had an oral tradition about the deep and immutable love between two men," well, there are spiritual messages there. And it's on you to understand what God is telling you.

People who grew up immersed in American Evangelical Fundamentalism tend to forget that that's the minority view on how to be a Christian and worship God. Like, Evangelicals say "Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a dish of lentils, and that is what happened." Every other denomination says "Okay, obviously this story is an allegory, probably for one tribe striking up a deal with another over food relief and land rights."