A recent Rasmussen poll of likely voters found that 75% of respondents in Arkansas and Alabama think the Bible is literally true. West Virginia came in at 70% and Tennessee at 68%.
In Vermont and Massachusetts evidently only 22% are complete whack-jobs.
I would like to think that these numbers only reflect the amount of people who regularly misuse (and therefore have forgotten the definition of) the word ‘literally’. Maybe when asked if they think the Bible is literally true they thought it was being used in the same way as when I say I’m going to literally kill myself because so many Americans are sheep (and stupid sheep at that).
I like the link between the “newspaper” title and the image. I’m looking for those strange couples. Thank you for the site.