And also no one, including the most steadfast evangelicals, takes the Bible 100% literally.
Oh yeah, it's totally incoherent, inconsistent cherry picking. The point is that they claim, and they believe, that everything in the bible is 100% literally true. And they don't have the self awareness to realize how hypocritical and dumb they're being, or they don't care.
I was raised in a church like that, believed the Bible was 100% the literal word of God. And was very Christian, even worked for the church. But by the time I was 14-15 years old, I figured out most of it was nonsense, and managed to push some of the pastors and youth pastors into awkward positions. Got one older guy to believe that dinosaurs and humans rosmed the earth together, and that it never rained before the flood of Moses, and that the earth was encased in a bubble of water. Another guy eventually gave up and gave me the "you can still be a Christian, believe in evolution, not be homophobic and Islamophobic, and think the Bible is metaphorical, even if we don't do that at this church" talk.
Oh yeah, it's totally incoherent, inconsistent cherry picking. The point is that they claim, and they believe, that everything in the bible is 100% literally true. And they don't have the self awareness to realize how hypocritical and dumb they're being, or they don't care.
I was raised in a church like that, believed the Bible was 100% the literal word of God. And was very Christian, even worked for the church. But by the time I was 14-15 years old, I figured out most of it was nonsense, and managed to push some of the pastors and youth pastors into awkward positions. Got one older guy to believe that dinosaurs and humans rosmed the earth together, and that it never rained before the flood of Moses, and that the earth was encased in a bubble of water. Another guy eventually gave up and gave me the "you can still be a Christian, believe in evolution, not be homophobic and Islamophobic, and think the Bible is metaphorical, even if we don't do that at this church" talk.