All Protestant sects have this vein of literalism that can pop up in the oddest places sometimes. For religious groups that had so much of their formation during the Enlightenment, it's often surprising to me the things that individual groups will insist on taking literally. Mostly it's the inconsistency between sometimes insisting that things are literal and other times insisting just as vehemently that it's metaphorical. I mean Lutherans don't take it literally when Jesus said "this is my body" and "this is my blood" (They all are consubstantiationists, not transubstantiationists) but some of them will go to bat for creationism?
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Date: 2013-06-29 03:26 am (UTC)