Your beliefs are crazy but mine make perfect sense

Two of my colleagues were discussing early Mormonism, the golden plates, and how they magically disappeared. I cannot agree more with the problems of claiming there were golden plates. However, their exchange made me chuckle because of their beliefs.
 
These two people can see the problems in Mormon claims but are utterly blind to their own. Both are very religious and one does not believe the scientific communities claims on several issues. They cannot see the problems with the ten commandments being carved in stone by the finger of god, the universal deluge, manna from heaven, parting the Red Sea, stopping the waters of the Jordan River, floating iron axe heads, killing a thousand with the jawbone of a donkey, magical strength adding hair, fire from heaven consuming the priests of Baal, water turning to blood, staffs turning into snakes, and all of the other thousands of problems that can be found throughout the Bible.
 
So Biblical literalism, or near literalism, makes sense to them even though the claims are as unbelievable as angels taking away golden plates.