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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
I think it's significant in that it shows there are Christians who don't believe in a literal translation
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Is that news to anyone? The overwhelming majority of Christians around the world don't believe that the Bible is a literal account of history. The phenomenon of Biblical literalism is largely isolated to fundamentalist and/or evangelical sects located primarily in the United States, and they're in the minority even amongst Americans.
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A 2011 Gallup survey reports, "Three in 10 Americans interpret the Bible literally, saying it is the actual word of God. That is similar to what Gallup has measured over the last two decades, but down from the 1970s and 1980s. A 49% plurality of Americans say the Bible is the inspired word of God but that it should not be taken literally, consistently the most common view in Gallup's nearly 40-year history of this question. Another 17% consider the Bible an ancient book of stories recorded by man."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_literalism