You just compared mindlessly throwing money at something to working for it . That ' s the reason people are bent out of shape , they are entitled with your I should get everything for doing nothing , and they think paying is doing something . <| sep |> The question then becomes which of the bible ' s stories are literal or figurative , and who is to say which is which ? The story of a virgin giving birth to a person who died at 30 and then came back from the dead is IMO no less ridiculous than that of Creation , yet the latter has been recharacterized as an ' allegory ' whereas people are still holding steadfastly to the literalhistorical truth of the former . It ' s mindboggling . <| sep |> Perhaps you missed this announcement out on the 29 th .