Word: literalistic
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...series of grade-school readers featured Amelia Bedelia, a bonneted and primly smocked English maid with a shaky grasp of her own native language. Much to the chagrin of her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, Amelia comically (and sometimes catastrophically) misinterprets their housekeeping instructions, thanks to her literalist approach to language...
...from right to left: he puts on his right shoe first, washes his right hand first after a meal, talks to people sitting on his right." (Al-Zarqawi's status as a wanted man forces him to make some exceptions in his mimicking of Muhammad. While most of the literalist schools of Islam require that Muslims follow the Prophet's example and keep full beards, al-Zarqawi, who frequently alters his appearance to throw off his pursuers, sometimes shaves. For the same reason, he can't afford to dress as the Prophet...
...literalist, but I went to church just about every Sunday growing up, I was confirmed, and I have studied the Bible in school. I feel as though I know it just as well as the next guy, and yet I seem to get a very different impression from the text than the groups in question regarding Christianity...
...suppose that unless these high-schoolers are wearing 100 percent cotton anti-gay t-shirts with their uncut locks and beards flowing behind them—from the literalist perspective—they might consider being more tolerant. I suppose, too, that I’m tired of radical fundamentalist Christians believing they have a monopoly on what’s Christian in the same way that the kid in section who never shuts up seems to think he has a monopoly on every topic, if only because he’s the only one talking…so loudly...
...From the literalist perspective, Jesus himself makes things pretty clear. When asked which commandment is greatest, he responds (in Matthew 22:37): “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind…the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets...