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walt fristoe
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USA
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 Posted - 03/03/2003 : 16:16:03
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I found this over at Internet Infidels' News Wire:
America's Religious Beliefs
I hope y'all find it interesting and informative.
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 03/03/2003 : 19:41:32 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by walt fristoe
I found this over at Internet Infidels' News Wire:
America's Religious Beliefs
I hope y'all find it interesting and informative.
* Higher levels of belief among people with no college education
Hum! I don't trust surveys.
My mother told me I was 3 when I stated 'there is no god'. That was long before I didn't get a college education, which I still don't have....a belief in god or a college degree.
Although Walt, yes, it is interesting. I also like to know how the questions are worded and how they swayed the answers, in any servey.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 03/03/2003 : 21:17:54 [Permalink]
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| Well, Snake, that's what happens to early non-believers. The atheism causes you to not go to college. (insert big, silly grin here) |
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gezzam
SFN Regular
Australia
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Posted - 03/03/2003 : 22:16:12 [Permalink]
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I wonder why an average of 90% believe in God, however only 68 percent believe in the devil....
I thought that they would go together
Edited because I'm a spastic typer |
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| Edited by - gezzam on 03/03/2003 22:16:59 |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 03/04/2003 : 05:07:29 [Permalink]
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I remember hearing someone speculate that it's because Satan doesn't actually get mentioned much. A quick search of an online Bible (NIV) shows the name only appears 15 times in the OT and 33 times in the NT. By comparison, 'Jesus' is in the NT 1,281 times.
There's also that business about Satan just being a metaphor for a person's baser instincts, etc.. |
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Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 03/04/2003 : 06:33:51 [Permalink]
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| One Percent of Christians do not believe in god? |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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Dave W.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 03/04/2003 : 10:31:01 [Permalink]
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I don't think that education level has much to do with it. I think it is the desire for knowledge that is most influential.
I have only an 8th grade, formal education, but I've always been a very heavy reader. Us chronic readers, we tend to think somewhat more than those who limit themselves to the morning paper. I sometimes wonder if 90% of the population reads even that, little bit. Of course, people tend to read stuff that makes them feel good. And the papers, and other media, are all about increasing circulation. Hand in hand, yes?
Damn, but I love the 'net! everything and anything I might ever want to study is right there in my keyboard, waiting to be summoned to the magic screen. The computer geeks, not some god, have blessed me with this marvelous gift.
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