Belief in God: US 78%, UK 25%
Belief in a Universal Spirit: US 14%, UK 30%
Belief in Heaven: US 81%, UK 26%
Belief in Angels: US 75%, UK 25%
Belief the Devil: US 70%, UK 14%
Belief in Hell: US 69%, UK 13%
Belief that God answers prayers: US 83%, UK 17%
Hard times = increased belief in God; spirituality increases; intellectualism decreases
Easy times = decreased belief in God; intellectualism increases; spirituality decreases
That’s what I’ve noticed anyway.
The spiritual heirs of the decadent heretic Henry VIII practice neo pagan earth worship. Call it what you like.
I think many of the churches have chased people away from religion. Nobody teaches that God expects things of us. Yes, He will love us anyway, but He has expectation of how we will behave. When you are loved, you need to love back and part of expressing that love is trying to live up to God’s expectations. JMHO
“Spiritual” is just a new name for pagan.
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Until the 1950’s in England, there were actual anti-witchcraft laws on the books, or did you know that?
I think if one reads the actual teachings of Christ, it’s apparent that Christianity is about spirituality. And I don’t see why it needs to be in conflict with science.
That’s not a blow to atheism. That’s a step toward atheism.
As Pope Pius X noted more than a century ago:
“These reasons suffice to show superabundantly by how many roads Modernism leads to atheism and to the annihilation of all religion. The error of Protestantism made the first step on this path; that of Modernism makes the second; atheism makes the next.” (PASCENDI DOMINICI GREGIS section 39).
What a heathen country. I’m so much less proud to have English ancestry.