Participants of the Roman Catholic Synod of Bishops conducted a survey of attitudes towards the Bible in various nations. The survey was sponsored by the Catholic Biblical Federation and carried out by GFK Eurisko, Italy’s leading market research organization. People were polled in the United States, the United Kingdom, Holland, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Poland and Russia. One of the results:
Fundamentalists, or those who take a literal view of Scripture, do not know more about the Bible than anyone else. In fact, researchers said, it’s readers whose attitudes they described as “critical,” meaning that they see the Bible as the word of God but in need of interpretation, who are over-represented at the highest levels of Biblical literacy. In other words, fundamentalists actually score lower on basic Biblical awareness.
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