Posted on 04/12/2009 8:57:37 AM PDT by mkleesma
As Christians gather to celebrate Easter this Sunday, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 88% of adults nationwide think the person known to history as Jesus Christ actually walked the earth 2,000 years ago. That’s up five points from a year ago. Today, 5% disagree and 7% are not sure.
Eighty-two percent (82%) also believe that Jesus Christ was the son of God who came to Earth and died for our sins.
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Hey 0bama, listen up.
Don’t want to be a cynic, but this is probably a blip in reaction to the economic slowdown. Regular church goers I know say that there is an increase in Sunday attendance lately.
We need a sustained return to the religions of our forefathers and the settlers of this country. Please notice that they were Christians, Deists and Jews almost entirely.
America was great because America was good.
Well, it all depends what exactly we’re talking about. The vast majority of Americans are Christian. But we are not a theocracy, in spite of what some liberals think. Our laws and customs came from Judeo-Christian values, but we have a secular government.
So are we a Christian nation? Based on religious affiliation, Christianity is definitely dominant. But our government and social life is secular, not religious.
And though liberals are outraged that we could be considered a “Christian” nation, religious minorities in America have all their rights to practice their faiths. Unlike the situation found in Muslim dominated countries, for example.
Praise the Lord. Jesus is Lord. Happy Easter to all. HE IS RISEN.
No, 100% of Catholics believe Jesus rose from the dead. Those 15% you refer to are simply confused as to which category they should place themselves in.
yes, and at the www.fhu.com there is a beautiful silent prayer exercise that shows people the way to attach to their holy spirit. It has helped so many people become happy and free and the church has somehow missed the boat. If people don’t know how to praye properly, to detach from the evil working through our minds, it is more difficult to find God.
Sounds like a Christian Nation to me?? What percentage are Mooselip?
Happy Easter
HE IS RISEN, INDEED. We are a nation who have God-Given RIGHTS....and one of them is the practice of our CHRISTIAN, or whatever we desire, RELIGION....it just so happens the majority are Christians. Although Obomba is trying to RE-Characterize us with his NLP practices.....saying one thing repeatedly....I’m sure we’ll hear him REPEAT his statement...”We are NOT a Christian nation” again.....and the CHRISTIANS will RISE UP, I believe, and PROVE HIM THE LIAR HE IS!
I saw that too, 86% of the Protestants and 97% Evangelicals.
Studies like this affirm what most of us know...formed a Christian nation, still a Christian nation.
The other articles you see, the Newsweek type (is that even still published?) saying that Christianity is done in the USA...those are fantasy tales that liberals think will come true if they repeat them enough times in print. Liberals don’t talk to average (real) people or give serious consideration to putting their faith in anything greater than government, so the only information they get as to how Christianity is doing are 9th Circuit decisions disallowing courthouses to display the Ten Commandments or put up a Christmas tree.
Happy Easter, fellow FReepers!
Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies, and whoever lives and believes in Me will never die.” (John 11:25)
Happy Resurrection Day!
Last Night at our Easter Vigil, we welcomed a number of new Confirmations, Baptisms, and Communions. My oldest Son had his First Communion. My youngest Son’s is next week. The reason we had to split the welcoming into two weeks is because we had too many to work in into last night’s Vigil!
A lot of new members to Catholicism in North Saint Louis County!
Keep drawing lines between you...and “not you”...build those walls.
A nation of majority Christians is not the same as a Christian nation.
....and I certainly did not put on the uniform to defend a Christian nation, but I did do so to defend your right to choose to be a Christian in this nation.
If America is not a “Christian Nation” one must surely say that America is a “Nation of Christians”.
Christ has Risen ! Jesus is LORD!
The only problem is - many of those who claim to be Christians voted for the Kenyan Muslim.
Obama’s equation made it very clear just how he thinks about this, which is out of keeping with huge numbers of people who THINK FOR THEMSELVES ON THESE MATTERS, and DON’T want far left secularism to become the Religion of the nation. Obama invokes the high school level cliche about the number of religions practiced by Americans and suggests that NONE of them has precedence or is to be considered more important than the other; instead , he says, we are not a collection of Christians, Jews, Muslims, or Buddhists, but ALL CITIZENS. THAT, he suggests is our true identity. It is crystal clear to me that he’s invoking THE COLLECTIVE he’s trying to create. The fact that we ARE a Christian nation and were founded as such, is just an inconvenience to him, so he runs roughshod over it on his way to perfecting the rhetoric of his “Ideal”, which exists only in his adolescent fantasy. He seeks a LEVELING of all religions and expects the dominant Judeo-Christian ethic to GIVE UP its ground. He has got a very rude awakening if he continues pushing this agenda.
He is risen!
Do what? Do you believe that stuff you posted?
WE ARE A CHRISTIAN NATION.
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