Are they really Biblical Literalists?

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Is the Christian Right really interpreting the Bible as literally as they claim?

I haven't had a chance to read the whole thing yet - it's somewhat dense - but it does support my long-held, but poorly-referenced, view that the Literalists aren't reading their Bibles as thoroughly as they ought.

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[lovmelovmycats.livejournal.com]

whoa, yes it's dense. :)

[freifraufischer.livejournal.com]

It's dense but I actually found myself spending almost an hour reading it. I have always felt a little ashamed for feeling that I do not know my Bible as well as those who would use it against me, but for me I've never been able to relate the Jesus they talk about to the one I love. I love a dangerous revolutionary Jesus who calls on his followers to perform acts that they do not know the outcome of. The Christian Right seems so assured of their place in the world that one wonders what they would do if the Lord came to them and asked them to put down their nets and become fishers of men.

I recently had someone tell me I was going to hell because I said I didn't believe in the rapture because as I understood it, it was not a Biblical concept but instead a 19th century idea. Yet when faced with "the Bible says" I always seem to fail in my duty to own my own religious belief and shrink from the arguement.

To my great shame as a Christian.