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literal adjective accurate, authentic, careful, close, correct, exact, factual, faithful, faultless, meticulous, precise, rigid, scrupulous, strict, textual, to the letter, true, true to fact, truthful, unchanged, uncorrupted, undeviating, unembroidered, unerring, unexaggerated, unmetaphorical, unvaried, unvarnished, verbatim, without exaggeration, word for word Associated concepts: literal interpretation See also: accurate, actual, authentic, exact, factual, faithful, honest, narrow, orthodox, parochial, precise, strict, true, verbatim How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Others, myself included, would not, under most imaginable circumstances, vote for a fanatic or fundamentalist--a Hassidic Jew who regards Rabbi Menachem Schneerson as the Messiah, a Christian literalist who thinks that Earth is less than 7,000 years old, or a Scientologist who thinks it is haunted by the souls of space aliens sent by the evil lord Xenu. The biblical literalists on the Dover board went out and found a supplementary biology textbook published by creationists in Fort Worth. By the same token, it's no accident that the hostility to Bishop Robinson, and to any formal tolerance of active homosexuality, is strongest among self-conscious evangelicals who increasingly insist on a literalist interpretation of scriptural condemnations of homosexuality. |
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