&gt; EDIT: to add to that, evangelical christians tend to embrace a literal translation of the bible<p>Actually, plenty of Evangelicals I&#x27;ve seen have cited strict literalism as one of the problems in Fundamentalism that Evangelicalism reacted <i>against</i>; while Evangelicals are more likely to view any particular part of the Bible as intended literally than are Christians who are neither Evangelical or Fundamentalist, there are plenty of Evangelicals who don&#x27;t hold that the Bible is, cover to cover, intended literally.