Democrats have to swear that they believe; Republicans have to swear that they believe literally.
Many soldiers believed literally in salvation, in a life after death.
Fossils pouring out of the mines, quarries and railway cuttings of the industrial revolution were undermining the biblical accounts of creation and early history, then believed literally true.
One wonders if Merrill, who never closed the door on the possibility that he believed literally in his Other World, was as comforted by the afterlife he so richly constructed.
In a documentary tape Mr. Scopes Jr. brought to the class, Mr. Darrow is heard getting Mr. Bryan to say that he believed literally everything written in the Bible.
Greene, a Catholic writer, believed literally in sin, Hell, and redemption, and Attenborough, silent, calculating, pale, and unblinking (his eyes were a great acting tool), offers one of the cinema's most convincing embodiments of paranoia and violence.
If we insist that these ancient texts must be believed literally and forever, we are stopping God from speaking now.
Hence, they will believe literally anything.
That means letting journalists and cartoonists be rude about their beliefs.Writers and artists are often quite proud of their power to unsettle the powerful, but they are also usually the last people to believe literally in "word magic", the ability to attract divine attention by mere irreverent mention.
She spoke softly, precisely: "There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine.
