The issue is when these metaphors aren’t presented or interpreted as such but as literally physical reality. It’s the difference between seeing the Bible as in

The issue is when these metaphors aren’t presented or interpreted as such but as literally physical reality. It’s the difference between seeing the Bible as inspirational and believing that the earth is literally 6000 old and Christ Is Coming Back Soon; take this course to prepare to Meet Him. If you compromise on truth in order to further your goals, you’re just priming people to be susceptible to conspiracy theories and other actually harmful untruthful ideas like that Bill Gates literally is putting nanochips inside vaccines. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that most of my hippie friends seem to have turned antivaxx on unscientific grounds lately.