i don't believe it...

A matter-of-fact statement, that; not reflexive denial...

I simply don't believe this:

GALLUP: Nearly 1 in 3 Believe Bible is Literal Word of God
About one-third of the American adult population believes the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally word for word, a new Gallup poll reveals. This percentage is only slightly lower than several decades ago.

Okay, let's stipulate that 1 in 3 actually believe that they believe that a Palestinian Hebrew born some 2000+ years ago can possibly be a Eurocentric blond with baby-blue eyes. But does anybody really believe 99% of that 1/3rd have actually read the damned book? And likely that that's not the case, let's pin the pinheads down on every "word for word" as we are made to read it to them, and demand whether they actually buy all of it - word for word!

And when we inevitably find out that there's some cheesy chapter or perverse verse that doesn't actually square with their sense of -- well, sense! -- and we consequently determine that not a one really believes all the gobbledy-gook that that book dispenses, we, the other 2/3rds of the put-upon majority, ought be allowed to share the blessing of providing each & every one of the ignorant Third a leather-bound, unabridged version of King James and ram them deep into their asses (which, I suspect, is how they achieve their book-learnin').

Ah, that felt guuuud!

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Update: Make that a Palestinian Hebrew born some 2000+ years ago, who is indeed blond with blue eyes, who lives at the north pole, although, once a year, rises up from the pumpkin patch and goes down the chimney, leaving quarters under pillows for every tooth you can pull outta yer head, while hiding li'l chocolate eggs for all the good little boys'n girls to scavenge.

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Update II: Lest I be deemed intolerant of people of faith, I say my contempt is for the content of those beliefs. If one is offended that that contempt appears to spill over into the ad hominem, I would then refer one to the LA Times, which gives an excellent example of the ramifications of coddling what Arthur C. Clarke once referred to as "a disease of infancy":

The problem is that people who deny science in one realm are unlikely to embrace it in another. Those who cannot accept that climate change may have caused the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago probably don't put much stock in the fact that today it poses grave peril to the Earth as we know it.