Science has a long history of killing religious fantasies.

Somebody wrote this question and somebody else wrote an excellent answer:

"Why, when biblical stories like the six-day creation and the story of Jonah used to be taken literally do Christians now say with certainty, science contradicting things like that, that they're allegorical?"

As science has continued to show that literal religious claims are wrong, the religious have two choices: Abandon their idiotic and factless delusions, or weasel into a position of claiming that 'it's not literal', as if that is in any way better. How does one work out what is allegorical and what isn't?

"It is difficult to free [slaves] from the chains they revere."

– Voltaire