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So half of the people in the world are religious people who think that their metaphors are facts; those are what we call theists. The other half are people who know that the metaphors are not facts, and so they're lies; those are the atheists

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How mataphors can be facts? Could you give me an example?
(It seems to me that in this quote 'meataphors' = 'miracles', in this case I agree. Religion is based on miracles, and the main difference between theists and atheists is their position in respect to the miracles.)

Do you mean turning water into wine is a fact? If someone can show it under controlled conditions I'd accept it. For the moment the only 'fact' about such a 'mataphor' is that it was written more than a 1000 years ago by someone (pbobably delusional), and since then no one was able to show anything similar to it.

Cliffnotes: The quote is misleading.