# Is Biblical literalism really a recent phenomenon?

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**Created:** [July 17, 2013, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-biblical-literalism-really-a-recent-phenomenon/663746 "2013-07-17T13:16:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-biblical-literalism-really-a-recent-phenomenon/663746/115 "2013-07-19T06:30:08Z")

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> [@Kable](#):
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> Well sure. If you take a bunch of fundamentalists and not count them, then you can say to yourself that there are very few of them. Just don’t think you are fooling anyone but yourself and apparently a lot of other liberals since it’s another pretty common liberal Christian meme. I guess it’s another one of those things that makes you feel better.

It’s no skin off my nose. Perhaps you missed this post of mine from the other thread:

> [@Christians: Why are scientists more likely to be non-believers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-why-are-scientists-more-likely-to-be-non-believers/662322/661):
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> > [@Christians: Why are scientists more likely to be non-believers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-why-are-scientists-more-likely-to-be-non-believers/662322/655):
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> > I’d like to know how you approach “literal” vis-a-vis Romans 12:17-21.
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> Well, after having taken a couple of years to learn to read it in the original, learn about the culture of the writers, reading what 2000 years of Christian theological thought on it was, etc… My conclusion was that it, and everything else in the book, was useless bullshit, and rejected the Catholicism I had been raised in.
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> Good enough answer for you?

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> Not on this board.

IRL they sure as shit are.

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> That’s wonderful conjecture. Do you have a cite?

I’m really wondering why I would bother. You seem to _ **be** _ a literalist fundamentalist, in that you have bought into their formula {must be 100% literally true, or 100% literally false}. You’re taking the opposite side, but you’re just as fanatical and closed minded about the formula itself. I’m done with someone who’s not really interested in learning, just pretending he’s infallible.

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