By "seriously" I meant in the way that Christians do, meaning the literal and inerrant word of God. Obviously the Bible has been influential in forming Western

By "seriously" I meant in the way that Christians do, meaning the literal and inerrant word of God. Obviously the Bible has been influential in forming Western civilization. So have the works of the Greeks and Shakespeare. But no one is trying to enshrine the precepts of the Pythagorean cult into law.