The headline on our local paper today, read, "Nature's Fury." I would think that such a headline would be offensive to all you literalists among us.

Well I for one see nothing wrong with those headlines. There's plenty of room for colour in this most colourful of languages. If you think we're all Spock-like automatons you've seriously misjudged us. Incidentally, the word you were looking for was rationalists, not literalists. We have nothing to be literal about.