Biblical Reading Outside Source

     This semester I also took a class on religion and politics in America. This source gave me a lot of information I already knew because of that class, and the movie I picked was strongly influenced by the class as well. I wanted to write about modern religion because the discussion in my political science class was so interesting to me, that I wanted an opportunity to expand on it. In the source, it was said that Biblical literalism has gone down incredibly in the early 2000s, but to expand on that, my other class taught me that secularism is now the largest identification in the United States. While our media and other people seem to talk nonstop about religion, I have learned that most people fall into the middle, where they are either not religious or are religious but are pretty private about it. I think that these statistics are important to remember. Whenever we get overwhelmed and think about the polarizing viewpoints in America, we need to remember that the vast majority of that is televised extremes, and both the essay I wrote and that class I took helps remind me of it.

Source: 

Reading the Bible in America: The Moral and Political Attitude Effect, Aaron B Franzen, Review of Religious Research