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. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2007)

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. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I find this to be a kind of literalist approach to Wyeth's painting, as if the subject of a poem were the words. ❋ Linda (2009)

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. ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)

The "literalist" argument had legs, but its feet are full of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As for slavery, I am not sure that a 'literalist' reading of the Bible does lead to affirmation of slavery. ❋ Burke's Corner (2009)

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. ❋ James F. McGrath (2008)

Former president George W. Bush, a born-again Christian, is among those who say evolutionary theory does not fully explain the Earth's creation, though the ex-president also noted he is not a "literalist" when it comes to the Bible. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'm no fanatical constitutional "literalist" or textualist, but the 6th Amendment seems to very clearly say that you have the right "to be confronted with the witnesses against" you. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As you notice, there are people of the Christian faith that don't follow the 'literalist' view that ignat is portraying. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Truth, according to one who a 'literalist' is as real, as to one who allegorically can 'see'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unfortunately, they also typically combine it with a "literalist" Biblical science curriculum. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The religion taught at this megachurch is more about lifestyle than laws or liturgy, and though the theology it espouses is biblically literalist and straitlaced evangelical, this fact is emphasized to varying degrees, depending on the context. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

The parish is part of the conservative, biblically literalist Missouri Synod Lutheran Church LCMS, the eighth largest Protestant denomination in the United States. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

I would suggest that a far greater enemy to the kind of liberal Anglicanism that has prevailed in the Church of England, custodian of Westminster Abbey, would be a biblical literalist. ❋ Julian Baggini (2010)