Believe Quote by Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“There are many narratives from documented histories that are based on real events, of course, but they were fantastically embellished by the wills and…

— Leah Reise

Many Christians understand the Bible to be a collection of stories without an overarching narrative.

— David Kim

“At this point it may be helpful to remember the distinction that the narratologist Gérard Genette makes between story and narrative.46 A literary narrative…

— Ellen F. Davis

The Bible writers didn't care that they were bunching together sequences some of which were historical, some preposterous, and some downright manipulative. Faithful recording…

— Jeanette Winterson

Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given…

— Jane Yolen

“the whole story was in fact a legend, that is, the burial and discovery of an empty tomb were tales that later Christians invented…

— Bart D. Ehrman

What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradictions in the stories which…

— Robert M. Price

“The Bible records a great deal of history, but as Dr. A. T. Pierson said, “History is His story.” What is written helps us…

— Warren W. Wiersbe

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is…

— Zadie Smith

“What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of people! Glory…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“...most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their…

— Reza Aslan

“The Holy Scriptures are story-shaped. Reality is story-shaped. The world is story-shaped. Our lives are story-shaped. 'I had always,' wrote G.K. Chesterton in accounting…

— Eugene H. Peterson