Ever since I was a kid I've enjoyed reading fantasy fiction, mythology, fairytales, and folklore. I think all the best lessons in life can be found in fiction stories as they give us some clue of an underlying reality normally hidden away from us. Now that I'm older I do wonder about the parallels between these stories and many of the things deemed a fantasy in real life. Paranormal, god, fairies, magic, otherworlds... I never dismissed as untrue, but simply something I could not see or know in this reality. New atheism dismisses religious scripture as a fairytale without seeming to know anything about it. Not that I'm defending any organized religion, but do we actually know the real purpose of some of the world's most famous religious books. What did so-called religious writings mean in their time? maybe it was a manual to working with "energies", perhaps it was a history, metaphor, a way to tell about immaterial world, or account of people's lives at the time. Do we assume in this age of materialism that everything can be proven empirically?