literalist

Some literalist is probably at this moment self-inflicting a herniated disc with head-shaking and complaining that anabolic steroids weren't synthesized until around the 1930s.

Archive 2007-11-01

Some literalist is probably at this moment self-inflicting a herniated disc with head-shaking and complaining that anabolic steroids weren't synthesized until around the 1930s.

9 Symphonies*

The initial panels are setup to the joke that the so-called literalist in the strip isn't actually taking EVERYTHING literally, just the elements that he wants to take literally.

Almost a Literalist

I did hear enough to learn that Enyart is a young earth creationist and Biblical literalist, which is enough to indicate that he's pretty damned ignorant.

Pharyngula

I find this to be a kind of literalist approach to Wyeth's painting, as if the subject of a poem were the words.

Archive 2009-01-01

I find this to be a kind of literalist approach to Wyeth's painting, as if the subject of a poem were the words.

On the Passing of Andrew Wyeth

The word 'literalist' has no more meaning than that of the context in which it has been used - ie that the historicists position is a position that is taking a literal approach to the gospel Jesus - in contrast to the mythicist position which is taking a non-literal approach.

Accusations and Assumptions: Another Mythicist-Creationist Parallel

The "literalist" argument had legs, but its feet are full of self-inflicted gunshot wounds.

Roadkill

As for slavery, I am not sure that a 'literalist' reading of the Bible does lead to affirmation of slavery.

Blair on 'doing God'

When he turns to the creation stories and their relationship to the controversies over evolution, his insights are articulated in a striking and helpful way: "Making a protoscientific treatise of this song, thus depriving it of its grand resonance, suggests that a "literalist" reading of the Bible is not reading the Bible at all" p.192.

Archive 2008-12-01