Lots of stories in the bible are demonstrably fiction (lets start with the fact that the earth is much much older than what the bible says... by orders of magnitude).

Maybe the Jews were not slaves in Egypt. Maybe they weren't nearly as numerous as the bible claims (and who can be surprised by that). Maybe they were a small tribe of people in Egypt and migrated to what is now Israel. There is plenty of evidence that they adopted "Jehovah" from a different tribe in the Sinai desert...

No one should take any religion as a factual history.

And the earth really doesn't reside on the back of a turtle... and, yes, it really isn't "Turtles all the way down" when one asks the question "On what does the turtle that carries the earth rest upon?"

And was amazed when there was none.

I think I stopped believing in any religion right there at 12.

Arguments with my classmates about this notable absence led to several fights. I learned to keep quiet about logic after that.

This is how religion turns otherwise intelligent people into ignorant superstitious authoritarian voters.

... for questioning the Bible. I knew I wasn't evil, and if they could be wrong about that, they were probably wrong about a lot of things. I don't think I ever took religion seriously after that.

Even at 7 you were very sensible.