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(RNS) America could be experiencing a decline of literalism and the rise of secularism, according to one interpretation of a recent Gallup Poll.
The poll, which measured Americans’ beliefs about the Bible, found that 28 percent of Americans believe the Bible is the literal word of God—close to the lowest point ever found in the survey. About 40 percent of Americans said the same thing in the late 1970s.
