Atheist Debates - Abraham and Isaac

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The three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Islam and Christianity) share a foundation that rests, in part, on the story of Abraham and Isaac (or, Ishmael, in the case of Islam). This story has strangely been preached as a lovely story of obedience and the foundation of a covenant with God...but what does the story really tell us?