Poll for Bible readers: Do you take the Bible literally?
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Anonymous
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If so, what religion do you follow (if any)?
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Anonymous
| No. I'm Catholic. The Bible is full of metaphors and analogies. |
Anonymous
| No. Presbyterian. |
Anonymous
| No. Conservative Jew. |
Anonymous
| No. Catholic. |
Anonymous
| No. Wiccan. |
Anonymous
| I don’t understand how anyone could. It is full of contradictions. |
Anonymous
+1. |
Anonymous
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Nope. I really try to understand how people can take the bible inerrantly but I can't.
Catholic. |
Anonymous
| Nope. Catholic. |
Anonymous
| No, I look at it metaphorically. Spiritual, not religious. |
Anonymous
| No. Episcopalian. Devout Christian. |
Anonymous
| Yes. Non-denominational Christian. |
Anonymous
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Nope--raised Catholic, and attended Catholic school through university.
I mean, the Bible clearly isn't meant to be taken literally. If it was, there wouldn't be two, contradictory creation stories, would there? It's a collection of books, written over a long period of time, that includes stories, poetry, proverbs, etc. If you take it literally, you have to tie yourself into knots to make sense of it. |
Anonymous
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No, reform Jew.
But about 1/4 of Americans say they do: http://news.gallup.com/poll/210704/record-few-americans-believe-bible-literal-word-god.aspx Fewer than one in four Americans (24%) now believe the Bible is "the actual word of God, and is to be taken literally, word for word," similar to the 26% who view it as "a book of fables, legends, history and moral precepts recorded by man." This is the first time in Gallup's four-decade trend that biblical literalism has not surpassed biblical skepticism. Meanwhile, about half of Americans -- a proportion largely unchanged over the years -- fall in the middle, saying the Bible is the inspired word of God but that not all of it should be taken literally. |