"Us vs. Them". Peter Hogan, Sydney, Australia, Oeuvre, Magnum Opus. egypt suez canal president nasser 26 july 1956 same as peter hogan's birthday

Why religion is bunk and pigs fly
If you are going to get into a conversation about some of the points religious people take to be concrete facts, especially fanatical / fundamentalist ones from both sides of the Us vs Them spectrum ...then the same conversation must accept serious conversation about the suggestion that it is a concrete fact that some pigs fly.
And if it is just a matter of belief, believing in something, and somebody recorded that it happened (but original documents are lost, now only copies of copies - the paper trail is lost) then everything is possible - all propositions are on the table and must be accepted as possible - not just that pigs fly, but all opposite propositions, including that there is no god - it's all mythology, all made up.
And a great precentage of material is plagiarized - a very natural and omnipresent trait (or vice) in all humans throughout the ages... Some may admit that there are add-ons, that are doubtful / apocryphal - ascensions into heaven (as Joseph Campbell noted if the christian figurehead really rose from the dead and then was later seen ascending up into the sky on the way to heaven - if he was ascending at the speed of light he would still be in our galaxy, one of billions!)... there is a god, just happens to look like an elderly wise male of our group, reincarnations... miracles...
And if some of it is conceded as innocent embroidery - you start stripping it off - where do you stop - will anything be left, of beliefs that go back to times when, the sun revolved around the earth - obviously because anyone can look up and see it circling us in the sky, and when scary things like lightning, thunder and meterors would naturally be thought to be manifestations of their god...
Isn't it ironic that all religions go into such detail in their main doctrines, but just happen to leave out 99.999999'% of time and the universe - no mention of dinosaurs, no mention of galaxies...