Do You Believe in God?
Do you believe in God?
NBC had a poll on this
question and were greatly surprised by the highest
number of responses that they have ever had for one of their polls, and the
percentage was the same as this:
86% to keep the words, IN God We
Trust and God in the Pledge of Allegiance
14% against.
That is a pretty 'commanding'
public response, so if 86% of Americans believe in God, why why is there such a
mess about having "In God We Trust" on our money and having God in the Pledge of
Allegiance.
Why are the majority of the
Americans and our supportive (hah) government catering to this 14%? We are so
careful not to offend a
AMEN!
Addition from MSNBC
Researchers found that only 10.8
percent of Americans have no ties to a congregation, denomination or faith
group. Previous surveys had put that figure at 14 percent, overlooking about 10
million people involved in some form of organized religion, the Baylor report
said.
Other surveys have also overlooked millions of evangelicals, because respondents
who belonged to nondenominational groups or megachurches would often report that
they had no denomination and were wrongly counted as unaffiliated, the study's
authors say.
Baylor researchers found that one-third of Americans are evangelical Protestant,
just under one-quarter are mainline Protestant, one-fifth are Roman Catholic and
5 percent are black Protestant. Jews compromise 2.5 percent of the population,
while 5 percent of Americans belong to other faiths.
The rest, who are not involved in religious groups, are not fully secular,
researchers said. More than 60 percent of the unaffiliated say they believe in
God or a higher power, and nearly one-third say they pray at least occasionally.
Eleven percent believe Jesus is the son of God.
That's my opinion and
I'm sticking to it.
