The Laziness of Biblical Literalism: Re: Literalist/Fundamentalist

» ArthurRuger - Re: Literalist/Fundamentalist

In response to Literalist/Fundamentalist posted by Satirie:

Arthur, are you talking about "fundamentalists" or "literalists"? Isn't it literally impossible to be a true literalist?

Oh man ..... I've always had an aversion to labels and the on-going plague on me was the original reference to fundamentalists and literalists I made in my earliest posts.

Most of what get's my dander up is the use of Biblical verses in a literalistic "one true and absolutely restricted meaning" upon which the only agreement is found within a particular group.

But you know ... I must be a literalist myself since my disagreement with others is founded in the same thing. For example, I assume that fathers all ought to act like the Father of the Prodigal Son.

I guess the bottom line has to do with additional assumptions, such as the one I infer which is that God agrees with my assessment of the Prodigal's father.

So, I don't know ... maybe I speak of "rigid, inflexible, literal fundamental Biblical evangelical theological absolutists." (Now I need to go wash my mouth out with soap.)

-- posted by ArthurRuger