# Biblical literalism in the primary text **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 29, 2015, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblical-literalism-in-the-primary-text/736065 "2015-10-29T06:27:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblical-literalism-in-the-primary-text/736065/21 "2015-10-29T16:00:21Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Look. the donkey didn’t talk in the way Mr. Ed talked. The donkey clearly talked because it was made to do so by God to send a message. So, assuming you believe in miracles, there is no reason to doubt the literal correctness of that text while continuing to accept that donkeys in general do not talk. No, no. You have to understand it the way Robert163 does: only _absolute_ literalism will do. So in Psalms 18:2 “The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower” it means that God is _literally_ a chunk of metamorphic stone, a castle, courage, a shield. And a horn. And a castle again. As someone else said in GD about Robert163: > [@A few questions about the Christian heaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-the-christian-heaven/735643/220): > > The notion of some not-very-well-read internet poster dictating to several billion people the ways in which they are to regard their holy books, (in which said poster does not believe), is risible. Your insistence in dragging your error into one thread after another to declare a point that fails on the evidence is merely silly. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblical-literalism-in-the-primary-text/736065)._