When "believers" talk to skeptics, they use images, tell stories, and give signs in an attempt to break through their culturally bound vision and lack of imaginative reach. But when the skeptics talk back, they flatfootedly translate those narratives into concepts, thereby misreading story as argument and hence focusing upon the seeming logical contradictions.

This is, perhaps, why skeptics attribute all kids of odd ideas and beliefs to religious souls that have absolutely nothing to do with what they actually think. It's as if the skeptics cannot grasp myth as anything other than false belief, and so they miss entirely the metaconceptual aspects of faith -- taking its figures literally and falsely projecting metaphysical notions upon what is essentially a poetic and deeply ironic worldview.

from Subversive Orthodoxy: Outlaws, Revolutionaries, and Other Christians in Disguise by Robert Inchausti, quoted at Emergent Voyageurs