re: #244 engineer cat

My favorite Bible interpretation nuts are the “It’s all literal!” ones…who always wield annotated versions of the text in question and fail to notice that the commentator is telling them what passages mean. Hand in glove with this “literalism” is the belief that Revelations will happen exactly as written (…for certain definitions of exactly that aren’t exact at all). The seven-headed beast won’t rise from the sea and have seven heads…instead Christians with the proper Captain Midnight decoder ring will understand that a certain person is the Beast because they understand how to interpret the allegory precise, literal description.