About 44% of Americans say the nation would be worse off without the Bible, the American Bible Society reported in the first installment of its 2023 “State of the Bible” survey.
Another 41% said the nation would be “about the same” were the Scriptures absent from society, while 14% said America would be better if the Bible were excised from the country.
The numbers are part of an annual canvas of Americans conducted for the Philadelphia-based group by the National Opinion Research Corporation each January. About 10 million Americans said they were “friendly” toward the message of the Bible even if they’re not active readers of the Scriptures. That group moved into what the society called the “Movable Middle” of Americans who are exploring the Bible’s message, a cohort estimated at 76 million people.
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