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February 2021
February 18, 2021
A Piece of the Biblical Action
I've been rewatching the original series of Star Trek and as always have been taking...
October 2020
October 25, 2020
Statement of Faith for Biblical Literalists
Statement of Faith for Biblical Literalists ARTICLE I: One day = six days Genesis 1:1-2:3...
October 19, 2020
Literalists aren’t Literally Literalists
There are things I've said in the past about this topic that are worth sharing...
September 2019
September 18, 2019
Barton Breen wrote the above as a comment on Facebook, and I asked for permission...
August 2018
August 06, 2018
Don’t Interpret the Bible, Just Read It
You have probably all heard fundamentalists such as young-earth creationists insist that they don’t interpret...
March 2018
March 05, 2018
How Much of the Bible do Young-Earth Creationists Reject?
I have been meaning to blog about this topic ever since Hemant Mehta pointed out...
February 2018
February 25, 2018
Someone I know drew my attention to an exhibit at the Micro Wonder Museum near...
February 24, 2018
I am really delighted to have had the chance to watch the first three episodes...
December 2017
December 30, 2017
What Does The Bible Literally Say?
The Bible does not literally say anything, because books do not literally talk, and the...
November 2017
November 24, 2017
5 Easy Steps to Reading the Bible Literally
I've shared a number of these kinds of memes and infographics before, and so I...
July 2016
July 02, 2016
Ronald Osborn's book Death Before the Fall is one that I put off reading for...
June 2016
June 29, 2016
The Bizarro cartoon poses an interesting question for Catholic vegans and vegetarians who claim to...
February 2016
February 22, 2016
Swing By and Pick Up the Llamas
Yesterday's Bizarro comic highlighted the absurdity of the Noah's ark story when taken literally. One...
September 2015
September 03, 2015
There Are No Scriptural Literalists
A quote from Dan McClellan, which I mentioned in another recent post, and have now...
September 01, 2015
N. T. Wrong reminded me of this great quote from James Barr: In my opinion,...
August 2015
August 06, 2015
I used a photo of A. J. Jacobs trying to live Biblically as the background...
August 04, 2015
Literalism = Misconception and Incoherence
The quote comes from p. xxiii of Nahum Sarna's book Understanding Genesis.
July 2015
July 03, 2015
I was asked a question on Facebook, and thought I would share the answer I...
May 2015
May 20, 2015
So-called "literal" interpreters of Genesis are often blind to the things they read into the...
April 2015
April 21, 2015
Genesis 2 is Not Literal (The Bible Tells Me So)
The quote comes from my recent post "Marriage is Sacred." The point is one that...
February 2015
February 26, 2015
The Most Interesting Biblical Hermeneutic
December 2014
December 10, 2014
The Patrologist recently blogged about exegesis as reading, warning about two extremes - the tendency to...
October 2014
October 09, 2014
Love Your Loopholes as Yourself
Benjamin Corey has a post about how many conservative Christians justify violence. He says, Bottom...
August 2014
August 20, 2014
Please Take Genesis 1 Literally
I am really tired of those pseudo-literalists known as young-earth creationists. I really want people...
August 02, 2014
A Facebook friend shared a post of mine on his wall, and it led to...
July 2014
July 15, 2014
I've shared both of these before, but thought they should be circulated again, since I...
June 2014
June 15, 2014
John Dominic Crossan on Literalism
June 13, 2014
Biblical Literalism’s Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
David Hayward's cartoon above illustrates the reason why I consider Biblical literalism to be an...
May 2014
May 31, 2014
I made the first image inspired by a comment made here on the blog recently...
May 30, 2014
This meme image was inspired by a comment left on this blog by Tim, in...
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