PEW FORUM: U.S. RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE SURVEY.—Check out OC Weekly's Orange Coast magazine has a party. I happen to know that Rebel Girl was invited to (and attended?) that party, and a piece about her (among others) will appear in the next edition.
The latest findings of the respected Pew Forum’s massive survey make it clear that we are an overwhelmingly religious people. Only 16 percent identify themselves as "unaffiliated" and only a tenth of those are atheists.
The strongest predictor of a person’s faith has always been the faith of their parents, but with interfaith marriages increasing, a quarter of adult Americans have switched to another religion.
The greatest gain was in unaffiliated, but even among the unaffiliated 70 percent said they believe in God.
The willingness of Americans to compartmentalize their beliefs, holding totally contradictory convictions in different spheres, is remarkable. Scientists accept as a given that behind every physical effect lies a physical cause. That seems to rule out supernatural causes, leaving gods with little to do.
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Gods with little to do
From today’s What’s New (by physicist Bob Park):
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Jesus loves you, Chunk. And He loves you too, Reb, regardless of what each of you think or how you feel.
I thought Jesus died some years ago. How do you have any idea what he "thinks," then?
10:14 Don't get 9:55 going. You'll get regaled with tales of the supernatural and mumbo jumbo about a holy ghost. It's a death cult thing and they number in the hundreds of millions. Positively creepy.
The living come with grassy tread
To read the gravestones on the hill
The graveyard draws the living still
But never any more the dead.
The verses in it say and say
The ones who living come today
To read the stones and go away
Tomorrow dead will come to stay
So sure of death the marbles rhyme
Yet and help marking all the time
How no one dead will seem to come
What is it men are shrinking from?
It would be easy it would be clever
And tell the stones; Men hate to die
And have stopped dying now forever
I think they would believe the lie
Frost
Found this surfing today and thought it kinda fits. For what it is worth I believe that there is something going on, we'll all find out soon enough.
Good poetry selection, TB.
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