>>17824357
American protestants are the greatest tragedy to Christianity. They have successfully ruined the reputation of Christians with nonsense like biblical literalism and moral panics.

The idea of treating the bible as literal history has never occurred in history, until Protestants
Hence why there was never any expeditions to find Eden or Tower of Babel.
Everything was understood as a metaphor, but, at the same time, it isn't seen as fiction

It is generally well-understood that Adam was the first priest and the Fall of Man was interpreted as the first time that God's message was corrupted for selfish reasons