Literal Bible Quotes

#1. Because of their excessive commitment to a literal Bible, fundamentalist Christians have fallen into the trap of biblioltry.

Mel White

#2. I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.

Charles Darwin

#3. The Family in particular, but also other really **** conservatives come to call what is "Biblical Capitalism." The idea that capitalism is ordained in the Bible and that inasmuch as we interfere with the market, we're interfering with God's literal and visible hand.

Jeff Sharlet

#4. A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.

Francis Crick

#5. People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong.

Benjamin Clementine

#6. Within the Christian tradition, fundamentalism arose in the 19th century as an effort to push back against modern' readings of the Bible that suggested everything in the text wasn't true in some literal sense.

Jay Parini

#7. I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. And I say no, it's not, Dad. Well, I believe that it is. Well, you know, some people believe they're Napoleon. That's fine. Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth.

Bill Hicks

#8. The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then three days later it would be reborn at the start of its cycle - December 25.

David Icke

#9. I don't read the Bible as the literal word of God; I don't view Jesus as a God. I've rejected both those statements. I view Jesus as a model for how we should live, and by that definition I do consider myself a Christian.

Tim DeChristopher

#10. The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.

Northrop Frye

#11. I grew up in environment that had more women in science.

Fabiola Gianotti

#12. If there was not one man Adam and one woman Eve, and a literal event of the one man Adam taking the fruit in rebellion and thus bringing sin and death into world, then one may as well throw the rest of the Bible away.

Ken Ham

#13. Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

Dalai Lama XIV

#14. I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

Anne Lamott

#15. I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.

Adele

#16. Never get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors.

George Carlin

#17. Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.

John Shelby Spong

#18. A thing or one's eyes are not maya (deceit), but the attraction that occurs due to the sense is maya!

Dada Bhagwan

#19. The Hebrew scriptures say it's okay to enslave anybody except your fellow Jews. It says you should enslave only your neighbors. I say to people that means Mexicans and Canadians are a bit at risk if we want to be literal about the Bible.

John Shelby Spong

#20. Any religion that would prohibit life-saving surgery simply because it goes against the literal word of the Bible cane nothing other than a cult. This is an abuse of dogma that crosses the line.

Haruki Murakami

#21. Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Jeanne Moreau

#22. By the time Cyrus was released from the hospital and the army, his gonorrhea was dried up. When he got home to Connecticut there remained only enough of it for his wife.

John Steinbeck

#23. Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it.

Jeffrey Tayler

#24. The Internet, and the computers that made it possible, came from a rather dark place, much more missile than ballet, and they might yet return there. This book is about how and why that could happen, and what might be done about it.

Scott Malcomson