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>the stories in the OT and NT have a wealth of evidence to support them
None of the supernatural stuff to begin with.
Building a philosophic second floor on mystic tales does give them respectability over time, but this has a limit, and eventually the rational inquiry tears the magic thinking apart. This is what happened in the West. The dumber version of the cult may keep being fed for political purposes though (eg. empire-building as with zionism)