Religious people other than fundamentalist Christians have spent three thousand years discussing this *conundrum. And learning deeply from doing so.
But yeah, fundamentalist Christians waltz in and assume it should be taken at face value. And atheists follow their lead.
*I once gave a sermon. On the akeida. I'm not a Talmud scholar. But even I know enough to find many different ways of learning from this superficially challenging story. A bit like the Greek myths..