"It is true therefore I must believe it"
"I believe it, therefore it must be true"
My contention is that theistic believers see little distinction between these statements.
I think Christianity suffers reproach for taking the Bible too literally and expecting everyone else to do the same. Along the lines of “The stories (myths) are true because the Bible is true.” When I hear a Christian talk about the “evidence” for their beliefs, he/she inevitably means the Bible is the historical evidence for things written in the Bible, eg, a human rose from the dead because the Bible says he did. Then when confronted with actual evidence Christians fall back to the conspiracy theory, that is, everyone is out to mislead them. IOW, they bury their head in the sand.
Science, archaeology, and critical analysis, have been a great blessing in that they have helped dispel the stories being taken as historical events resulting in them being myths (1).
Now the risk is that the pendulum swings too far in the other direction resulting in impiety and nihilism. Atheism is not the solution to bad interpretations of scripture. The solution is to sift the bad meaning from the good meaning and hold onto the good.
I rarely hear an atheist speak harshly of Jesus maybe because they recognize something good in him that they aspire to be. I encourage them to hold on to that, maybe emulate him, if nothing else. There is something to be gleaned from his example, IMO.
1) In the sense that myths convey abstract ideas involving our reality that science had not caught up to when they were written. Hence, the titles for the messengers: prophets, apostles, mystics, heirophants, philosophers, buddhas, magi, etc.