Posted on 05/22/2023 8:18:00 AM PDT by devane617
Only half of Americans now say they are sure God exists.
That finding, from the closely watched General Social Survey, stands out among several nuggets of new data about religion in America.
Not quite 50 percent of Americans say they have no doubt about the existence of God, according to the 2022 survey, released Wednesday by NORC, the University of Chicago research organization. As recently as 2008, the share of sure-believers topped 60 percent.
Thirty-four percent of Americans never go to church, NORC found, the highest figure recorded in five decades of surveys.
Another new report, from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), said that 27 percent of Americans claimed no religion in 2022, up from 19 percent in 2012 and 16 percent in 2006.
The PRRI report tracks a historic decline in the nation’s Christian population, especially among white people. The share of Americans who identify as white evangelical Protestants has dwindled from 23 percent to 14 percent since 2006. The share of mainline white Protestants has fallen from 18 percent to 14 percent. White Catholics have declined from 16 percent of the population to 13 percent.
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The half that voted biden hillary obama
And this is the root cause of our problems. Globohomo,etc are the symptoms
The car in their driveway DID have a maker - a factory they can go see for themselves, if they have any doubts.
Whether or not humans had a maker is a matter of faith. One can trust or believe, but one can’t know.
What’s wrong with admitting you don’t know something that you don’t know?
I won’t fault you for claiming to know something beyond the limits of your knowledge.
You shouldn’t fault me for admitting some things are beyond the limits of my knowledge.
The consciousness of collections of lifeless molecules believe that random processes accidentally bring them to life. Molecular structures with science degrees use technical jargon to describe them: Fools and Democrats.
The other half thinks they are here by accident and for no purpose....
Ask them to define God..
Those who live by faith absolutely believe in God and their is NO doubt. There is a question to ask yourself though...do you believe IN God or do you BELIEVE God? Only you can answer that question honestly.
Which yields the question, “Why do many expect godly behavior from ungodly people?”
God is dead. God is dead. God is dead. God is dead.
- Life Magazine
Life Magazine is dead.
- God
Those who don’t believe in God are, by default, forced to believe in a universe that became self aware and created Clair De Lune. I see no difference in the awe or plausibility between the two.
AMEN!
Now, that's not too hard to understand. Ignore this at your own peril.2 Chronicles 7:14 -- If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Unfortunately, the masses are clearly ignoring this simple instruction, and it does not take a brain surgeon to figure out where we are headed!
But, but billions and billions of years ago lightening struck and created digital life forms all at once so they could live ..oh and grew an atmosphere, and built perfect gravitational pull and all the plants and animals evolved in perfect symbiotic relations and are still evolving...just believe in the power of man.
Psalm 2
Isn’t Darwin amazing? That Psalm was a psalm of Charles, if I remember correctly.
That's up to God.
Matthew 10:28 “Don't be afraid of those who want to kill your body; they cannot touch your soul. Fear only God, who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
“Gee… WHY is the country going down the toilet???…”
I have come to believe that most people reject God because he doesn't conform to THEIR will. He doesn't do what THEY want HIM to do.
"Why does God allow children to be abused?"
"Why did God allow me to get cancer?"
"How can God allow so much evil to exist in the world?"
He just doesn't measure up to their standards!
...but as God asked Job...
"Where were you when I created the universe?"
Deus est, ergo sum
“I have come to believe that most people reject God because he doesn’t conform to THEIR will. He doesn’t do what THEY want HIM to do.”
I have a friend that seems to think God is a vending machine—all she needs to do is live right and pray in place of dropping quarters, so, she is constantly sad and doubtful. It’s not the way to works.
That made no sense… sorry.
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