Literal-minded

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Tending to take things literally, without understanding subtext, etc.

    "When spiritual knowledge is lost, then literal-minded fools go around slaying relatives or cutting out hearts and lifting them up to the sun."

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"When spiritual knowledge is lost, then literal-minded fools go around slaying relatives or cutting out hearts and lifting them up to the sun."

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