Bible and southern fried chicken!
If you grew up in the South (of America) you had to love Sundays. At least I did. It was southern fried chicken and baby in our house, which also means impressive dinner rolls moist (handmade of course), white cream sauce, green cabbage (where I inherited my 'soul') loaded with butter and ham drippins , creamed corn, and topped with apple pie! Oh yeah!
Now, if you do not grow in the South, its Sunday dinner would be very different.
And so it is with the Bible!
If you grew up in the South and called you a Christian who was synonymous with the BIBLE! Bible and Christianity are the same. And southern FRIED Bible as well. If you do not believe the Bible is the word of God speaking from heaven, written by the man who was destined for the FRY! For most Christians in the south of the Bible is what the Pope and the Catholic Mary.
Do not mess with Texas?
Do not mess with Bible believin 'fried Southern Christian.
But what if you were born in New York, Wisconsin, Oregon, or the place outside the United States? As with Sunday dinner, the appetite of the Bible is also very different. For example, the Christian creeds (Apostolic Nicean and creeds as an example) that are spoken in many churches around the world and highly revered, do not mention a BIBLE! In fact, the historical and traditional Christianity, the Bible itself has never been mentioned as a "subject of the Faith."
For most Christians, outside the Bible Belt (wonder why they call it the Bible Belt? Duh!), And that is something like 90-95% of Christians around the world, the Christian faith is believing Jesus, who became the Christos, and worship God through the risen Christ.
Having said that anywhere but in the South would have a wink and a smile. Say the Bible is a sacred work, but not be idolatrada, quoted, or as literal in South America is seen as synonymous with being an unbeliever, that the soul goes to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in hell for all eternity unless you repent: repenteth to be sensible and logical about the Bible. 
I joke, of course, but not much.
Me? I have since learned that fried foods are not really good for you, like the notion that the Bible FRIED promoted by "fundamentalists" may harm your true nature and identity as well.
