The interesting context, I appreciate. The subtle condescension, not so much... I'm well aware that Christianity was cobbled together like Frankenstein's Monster using various parts of existing religions and pagan traditions. I assure you that these stories have not gone over my head.

You seem to think that the main issues I have with these stories are: the questions of historical veracity; or whether they were original stories. It's really not. Sure, for stories like Noah's Ark, where we know for certain it didn't happen.

Or how we can say with near-certainty that Moses never parted the Red Sea, and crushed "Pharaoh's'" army (side note: it's funny to me how they always just call them that in the Bible. Just, "Pharaoh". And I guess we're supposed to pretend that we don't know they had names and histories known to us?).

How do we know? Because their remains would be all over the bottom of the sea. Also, I'm pretty sure that Egypt, during the times when Pharaohs ruled, was known for keeping pretty good records. No historical record that the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt even exists. In fact, there's no record of these Hebrew slaves, period.

Anyway, I digress...

And Noah's ark was likely originally a famine story before being turned into an adaptation of the Babylonian flood mythos.

Throwing these claims out with zero sources or backup? Like c'mon guy (or gal, etc.) that's quite the stretch. Let's see the the sources.

I guess all of this was to say that I find the meanings and lessons of these stories to be downright appalling. Whether or not Job was a real bloke isn't really the point.