I remember the first time I ever had to really deal with a biblical literalist.

A buddy and I were talking about Jericho, and how besieging armies would deploy sappers to undermine walls, and the armies would make noise to cover up the sounds of the digging.

This literalist inserted himself in and you would have thought we were talking about smothering babies from the way he went on about how we were doubting the word of god middle eastern pastoral folklore.