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Historical Blindness

The Great Alignment Lie

Historical Blindness

Nathaniel Lloyd

Politics, News, History, Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.0885 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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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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