Reply #124: I think yoiu will find...

[Robert Cooper]

...that I've been addressing points like yours elsewhere in this discussion.

But let's go over your original statements:

"You have not contributed anything to my understanding. The whole thesis is that the secularists dont' understand that some people read the bible as literal. I knew that. I think most here did, as well."

Declaratory statement, irrelevant.

"That's the crux of the disagreement. They think the book is literal. The majority of christians do not. Add in those non-christians, and the vast majority disagrees with them."

Declaratory statement: you appear to be making a distinction between a majority group and a minority group as if this has merit in this discussion (thus my first question)

"The disagreement isn't secularist vs. religious. It's hardcore literalist flying in the face of science against the vast majority."

Declaratory statement: you appear to be dismissing "hardcore literalist" as a "religious" individual, without evidence to support the apearance you've created. self-contradictory. And again you push the "vast majority" as if religious protection is only reserved for the majority (thus my second question).

"It's not a matter for most, i think, of not understanding the other side. It's understanding what they say, why they saying, and flat out rejecting that interpretation of the world."

Declaratory statement: irrelevant.