Reply #56: What on earth does this have to do...

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...with insisting that anyone who calls himself a Christian MUST or SHOULD use literal interpretation?

These comments of mine were directed at someone who already took such a literal interpretation. I'm not "playing innocent" or otherwise trying to be coy with you. And I never claimed I don't argue against literal interpretations and the ridiculous and stupid implications of such literalism -- I've done so often.

If you've got some weird chip on your shoulder that makes you take this as an insistence that you personally must or should take the Bible literally too... that's your issue, not mine.

Further, even if I were doing this weird I-insist-you-take-it-literally-thing you think I'm doing, "fundamentalist atheist" still wouldn't make sense as a label for describing it.