How prevalent do you think Bibliolatry is in the United States, using this definition:
About 25 years ago I was flipping through channels, and landed on a religious channel. The televangelist was standing on the far side of a large, empty stage, holding up a copy of his Bible. He said, in tones that would have been appropriate from Moses on the mount, 'If Jesus Himself came down and told me that there was something wrong with this Book, I would turn my back upon Him and HOLD TO THE BOOK." (Caps reflect his tone....)
I have since met many evangelical, biblical (usually KJV only, but not always) inerrantists since then who shared this televangelist's opinion.
That, I believe, is bibliolatry.
..........pretty much the definition of it, I think.
Whatever, that experience sits in my memory like some other things, like, oh, where I was when Kennedy was assassinated, the Challenger explosion, the moon landing, 9/11...one of the big, life changing, memories. Before that I, even though I was in my forties, had no clue that anybody actually believed that.
But then, my own faith system has this belief about the bible: we believe the bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly. I've never had a problem with 'problems' with the Bible, and have never been taught, or believed, that it was inerrant. How could it be? Men wrote it.