What you describe is really interesting! I never knew. And thought I might be off the mark completely, it's hard from where I stand to NOT immediately think this relates to the way these people have probably been raised IN the Bible - I mean with people "witnessing" and preaching and hammering it as the one true thing over and over... in such a way that they can never distinguish between a text that exists to STATE A TRUTH and describe a reality (or a belief which WANTS to be adopted and spread) and a text that exists for other reasons..

Fascinating. wow. It gives me a lot to ponder.