This past week, the Achbishop of Canterbury, England deemed much of the Nativity "legend." No snow in Bethlehem, replace the kings with astrologers. Mary can stay, but she's likely no virgin.
Better still, was the Christian Broadcasting Network's response, "New Poll Says Most Americans Believe Stories in the Bible."Most Americans believe the stories in the Bible are true according to new research by the Barna Group. The top story listed in the new survey is Jesus' birth to the virgin Mary. Seventy-five percent of adults say they take that story as the literal truth. Also, 68 percent of adults surveyed believe that Jesus fed 5,000 people with just five loaves of bread and two fish. Sixty-four percent of adults believe in the story of Noah's Ark and the flood that covered the earth.
The Barna Group? Nothing screams unbiased empirical rigor quite like faith-based survey design.
