The Great Alignment Lie
Historical Blindness
Nathaniel Lloyd
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🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:45.3 | As I have conceded before, many believers in Judeo-Christian traditions view their scriptures as symbolic rather than literal. |
| 0:48.3 | Mainstream Judaism emphasizes interpretation and a metaphorical understanding of the Hebrew Bible, |
| 0:55.0 | just as the largest Christian group, Catholics, asserts that while the Bible was inspired by God, |
| 1:02.0 | passages in it are symbolic and allegorical, and not to be understood literally, |
| 1:08.0 | especially when doing so contradicts history and science. In fact, according to a recent |
| 1:14.0 | Gallup poll, the percentage of Americans who take a purely literalist view of scriptures |
| 1:20.0 | has steadily fallen since the 80s. But there is a purpose in focusing on the claims of literalists in critiques of religious thought, |
| 1:30.7 | since the number of literalists in America is still high at 20%, since the literalist view causes |
| 1:37.7 | so much harm in promoting dogmatism and undermining education and trust in academia, journalism, and science. And since, as I've |
| 1:46.8 | argued many times before, the authoritarian emergency America currently finds itself in, is because |
| 1:53.6 | of the marriage of fundamentalist evangelical Christianity, which broadly takes the literalist view |
| 2:00.0 | with conservative politics since the 80s. |
| 2:03.6 | But of course, literalist views of the Bible have a long history of leading people to believe and pursue the wrong things. |
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