{"id":3992,"date":"2003-03-03T10:01:30","date_gmt":"2003-03-03T15:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2003-03-03T10:01:30","modified_gmt":"2003-03-03T15:01:30","slug":"belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/03\/belief.html","title":{"rendered":"Belief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting Harris Poll on <a title=\"Harris Interactive | The Harris Poll - The Religious and Other Beliefs of Americans 2003\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrisinteractive.com\/harris_poll\/index.asp?PID=359\">The Religious and Other Beliefs of Americans 2003<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among some noteworthy items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>90% of adults believe in God.\n<li>51% believed in ghosts, but only 27% aged 65 and older.\n<li>63% of people who believe the soul survives after death (84% of the total) believe in Hell, but only 1% think they are going there; 18% opined they did not know where they were going.\n<li>Men tend to be a bit less believing than women, and belief in religion and the supernatural goes down to some degree the higher the education level.  (Still, 85% of folks with post-grad degrees believe in God.)<\/ul>\n<p>A couple of oddities (which might indicate folks not understanding the questions, having different definitions for the terms, or giving goofy answers):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1% of Christians do not believe in God, 8% do not believe in the survival of the soul after death, 7% do not believe in miracles, 5% do not believe in heaven, 7% do not believe in the Virgin birth and 18% do not believe in hell.\n<li>26% of <i>non<\/i>-Christians believe in the resurrection of Christ; 27% believe in the Virgin birth.<\/ul>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blinne.org\/archives\/000058.php\">Blinne<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting Harris Poll on The Religious and Other Beliefs of Americans 2003. 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