It is a futile desire, to be sure. But there are times I wish we could have a moratorium on the word “literally.”
I am not referring to the use of literally as an intensifier or a stand-in for the word actually or really, which Vice President Biden uses liberally. (For what it’s worth, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce were all known to use this form of “literally.”)
Instead, I am thinking of the use of the term when someone doubts the historicity of the Bible and asks if you “take the Bible literally.” Keep reading
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