RE: Decline of religion
July 21, 2023 at 12:16 am
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2023 at 12:16 am by Fake Messiah.)
Belief in God, the devil falls to new low: Gallup
Americans’ belief in God, angels, heaven, hell and the devil fell to the lowest point in more than two decades.
Since the pollster first began collecting survey data on the subject more than two decades ago, belief in God and heaven has dropped 16 points, while belief in hell has fallen 12 points and belief in the devil and angels has decreased by 10 points.
Belief is highest among those who attend regular religious services, with 98 percent of Americans who attend weekly services and 94 percent of those who attend nearly weekly or monthly services saying they believe in God.
Protestants and other Christians were also slightly more likely than their Catholic counterparts to believe in such spiritual entities, according to the poll. While 94 percent of Protestants said they believe in God, 85 percent of Catholics said the same.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/res...ow-gallup/
So 85% of Catholics believe in god? How can one be a Catholic and not believe in god?
Americans’ belief in God, angels, heaven, hell and the devil fell to the lowest point in more than two decades.
Since the pollster first began collecting survey data on the subject more than two decades ago, belief in God and heaven has dropped 16 points, while belief in hell has fallen 12 points and belief in the devil and angels has decreased by 10 points.
Belief is highest among those who attend regular religious services, with 98 percent of Americans who attend weekly services and 94 percent of those who attend nearly weekly or monthly services saying they believe in God.
Protestants and other Christians were also slightly more likely than their Catholic counterparts to believe in such spiritual entities, according to the poll. While 94 percent of Protestants said they believe in God, 85 percent of Catholics said the same.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/res...ow-gallup/
So 85% of Catholics believe in god? How can one be a Catholic and not believe in god?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
