[DungeonMaster]

I find it peculiar that a certain sect of Christianity views scripture as somehow separate and apart from the physical world, adopting a kind of Biblical idolatry. God did not "speak" once and calcify his "word" between the covers of a book.

So what are you saying? You don't get people that believe the bible is the Word of God, inspired and without error and that it contains an immeasurable wealth of truth that applies to all of life?

[atlaw]

I don't get people who claim to be Biblical "literalists," and I don't get people who reject the reality of the physical world around them when it supposedly conflicts with their idiosyncratic "literal" interpretation of the Bible.