Thursday, November 13, 2003

Harris Interactive | The Harris Poll - The Religious and Other Beliefs of Americans 2003

Harris Interactive | The Harris Poll - The Religious and Other Beliefs of Americans 2003: "That very large majorities of the American public, and almost all (but not all) Christians believe in God, the survival of the soul after death, miracles, heaven, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the Virgin birth will come as no great surprise. What may be more surprising is that half of all adults believe in ghosts, almost a third believe in astrology, and more than a quarter believe in reincarnation � that they were themselves reincarnated from other people. Majorities of about two-thirds of all adults believe in hell and the devil, but hardly anybody expects that they will go to hell themselves."

Curious statistics, although without any qualifiers, these questions are so ridiculously broad that the answers don't mean much to me.

Curious, however, nonetheless. It certainly helps to see where some stereotypes come from.

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