Yet things like "bats are birds" aren't meant to be taken literally. So what justification do you have for picking and choosing what you want to be literal? And why? By what metric can you tell the difference?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'