I think people disagree because they disagree with the very idea of religion, and don’t like it being pointed out that religious people exist and do things differently. Saying that people read the Bible “as history” was deliberately vague to encompass multiple ways in which it is read, but one irrefutable one is that Christians read it as history in exactly the way you’re saying it isn’t.
The fact that people may be interpreting what I said not to mean “Christians read the Bible as historical fact” but “The Bible is historical fact” is for them.
I think people disagree because they disagree with the very idea of religion, and don’t like it being pointed out that religious people exist and do things differently. Saying that people read the Bible “as history” was deliberately vague to encompass multiple ways in which it is read, but one irrefutable one is that Christians read it as history in exactly the way you’re saying it isn’t.
The fact that people may be interpreting what I said not to mean “Christians read the Bible as historical fact” but “The Bible is historical fact” is for them.