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Gallup Again - The Bible
July 7, 2022 at 8:37 am
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...
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RE: Gallup Again - The Bible
July 7, 2022 at 11:33 am
I wonder how we compare in this regard to the UK.
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RE: Gallup Again - The Bible
July 7, 2022 at 2:55 pm
Five hundred years ago one would have been burned alive for publicly questioning the Bible being the literal Word of God. Progress, I suppose.
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RE: Gallup Again - The Bible
July 7, 2022 at 6:47 pm
Wait, who doesn't occasionally beat their slaves?
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RE: Gallup Again - The Bible
July 9, 2022 at 3:59 pm
The graphic is really cool and can be viewed here:
https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/9GSiZ/2/
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RE: Gallup Again - The Bible
July 9, 2022 at 4:03 pm
(July 7, 2022 at 6:47 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Wait, who doesn't occasionally beat their slaves?
I haven't stopped beating mine...
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RE: Gallup Again - The Bible
July 9, 2022 at 4:24 pm
(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...
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RE: Gallup Again - The Bible
July 9, 2022 at 6:03 pm
(July 7, 2022 at 2:55 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Five hundred years ago one would have been burned alive for publicly questioning the Bible being the literal Word of God. Progress, I suppose.
Took 500 years and there are still those who wish they could burn us all.
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RE: Gallup Again - The Bible
July 10, 2022 at 1:43 am
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(July 7, 2022 at 2:55 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Five hundred years ago one would have been burned alive for publicly questioning the Bible being the literal Word of God. Progress, I suppose.
You think that in 1522 a person could be burned alive for announcing that large parts of the Bible are to be read as allegory or parable?
Citation needed.
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RE: Gallup Again - The Bible
July 10, 2022 at 3:51 am
(July 10, 2022 at 1:43 am)Belacqua Wrote: (July 7, 2022 at 2:55 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Five hundred years ago one would have been burned alive for publicly questioning the Bible being the literal Word of God. Progress, I suppose.
You think that in 1522 a person could be burned alive for announcing that large parts of the Bible are to be read as allegory or parable?
Citation needed.
Thomas Woolston was the first theologian who interpreted Bible allegorically, and he lived in the 17th and 18th centuries and because of his allegorical interpretation of the Bible he was put in prison where he died.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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