[graemep]

What is an IP?

Also, I think its clear that some of this predates modern American evangelical Christianity, and some lies in secular values.

> That someone could convince Christ's followers to basically believe the opposite of the Gospel.

There are a number of historical examples. Most recently prosperity gospel and Positive Christianity?

> All that to say I'm not sure it really matters what exactly was written in the Bible because clearly a lot of the supposed followers of Christ never read it.

Often the ones who place the most importance on the Bible alone, and the most likely to be literalists! I think that is the root of it, because read as a "book" rather than a collection of documents, that exists in multiple versions, subject to disputes about wording and translation, each document written within a cultural (sometimes even personal) context, you can make it mean whatever you want to.

[rightbyte]

> Often the ones who place the most importance on the Bible alone, and the most likely to be literalists!

Quite often they refer to the bible as infallible or perfect even though their church's canon officially and openly is very nuanced.

[graemep]

Literalists are almost always members of churches that are Biblical literalists. Almost all those I have met are members of churches in the American evangelical tradition (mostly not American themselves, but in countries I have lived in, but in that tradition and sometimes members of American churches).

I think it is fair to say they are in conflict with the broader church (i.e. the body of all Christians) or Christian tradition, but not fair to say they are in conflict with their own church.

[erikerikson]

Intellectual property. Here referencing the body of work starting with books, falling with a TV series and movies. Referring to it as the "IP" abstracts across those forms.

[valiant55]

Intellectual Property, I believe it started as a book series but had movies, shows and I'm sure other media as well.

[graemep]

I am familiar with the did not think that fit the context! I was expecting something religious rather than a general term.