If that were so Arthur, you would not be so desperately trying to cover yourself. Unfortunately for you the text clearly speaks for itself.
Unfortuntely, conservatives/Republicans/Tea Partiers et al are very selective in their use of literalism. For example, the shooting of Congresswoman Gifford, Arthur and his ilk were the first to decry taking the words of their leaders literally. When one must sacrifice honesty in the name of the cause (e.g. Tea Party/Republican theology), there is something very wrong with the cause. When on can see the splinter in the eye of your neighbor and fail to see the log in your own eye, there is a problem...and so it is with this thing called conservatism in American society.
Total BS. Do you not know what taking something literally means? No Republican/Tea Partier said to shoot Giffords. Arthur