(July 7, 2022 at 8:37 am)TheJefe817 Wrote: Saw this one today - Gallup is on a roll.
Fewer in U.S. Now See Bible as Literal Word of God
As someone who wants to believe as many true things as possible and disbelieve as many false things as possible, as well as encourage others to do so as well, this is encouraging. For me, this was probably the first major domino to fall and everything else accelerated quickly thereafter.
It now stands at about 20%, roughly half of the 38% in 1976 and 40% in 1980. A few points of that went from "actual" (ie: literal) to "inspired", but most of the shift was all the way to "fables". Not surprisingly, the literals tend to be older, less educated, republican, conservative and protestant (much of which is further broken down in the pdf linked in the story).
Of course, it's still terrifying to me that 20% of Americans apparently believe in talking snakes and beating their slaves, but there you go...
Boru
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