Posted on 10/13/2003 3:59:22 PM PDT by Steve Eisenberg
That very large majorities of the American public, and almost all (but not all) Christians believe in God, the survival of the soul after death, miracles, heaven, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the Virgin birth will come as no great surprise. What may be more surprising is that half of all adults believe in ghosts, almost a third believe in astrology, and more than a quarter believe in reincarnation that they were themselves reincarnated from other people.
Most of the 84% of the public who believe in the survival of the soul after death are optimists. Almost two-thirds (63%), including 75% of Christians, expect to go to heaven. Only 1% expect to go to hell. Six percent expect to go to purgatory while 11% expect to go somewhere else and 18% dont know.
All Adults |
Party I.D. |
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Republican |
Democrat |
Independent |
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% |
% |
% |
% |
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God |
90 |
93 |
90 |
87 |
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Survival of the soul after death |
84 |
87 |
83 |
83 |
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Miracles |
84 |
87 |
82 |
82 |
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Heaven |
82 |
89 |
80 |
78 |
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The resurrection of Christ |
80 |
87 |
78 |
75 |
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The Virgin birth (Jesus born of Mary) |
77 |
86 |
73 |
72 |
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Hell |
69 |
82 |
63 |
65 |
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The devil |
68 |
79 |
62 |
65 |
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Ghosts |
51 |
42 |
54 |
56 |
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Astrology |
31 |
19 |
40 |
29 |
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Reincarnation |
27 |
18 |
31 |
30 |
(Excerpt) Read more at harrisinteractive.com ...
Looks like 40% of Democrats believe in astrology. I guess that might give a hint of how a Dean administration would deal with the terrorists.
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Being a tolerant fellow, I am going to endorse a view on this I just found, via Google, over at Democratic Underground (the infamous DU):
Satan owns fast food franchises?? Damn. Who woulda thought??
Reincarnation is a belief that you come back, to this world, often as an animal -- and that you yourself are such a reincarnated being.
In this poll of over 2,200 Americans, 87 percent of Republicans believe in survival of the soul after death, but only 18 percent believe in reincarnation. This tells me that the great majority of poll respondents do more or less know the difference.
I just asked my 11 year old, David, what reincarnation is and who believes it. He said what it was and that about a billion Asians, Hindus and Buddhists, believe in it. Good so far, but then he guessed that only 1 - 2 percent of Americans believe in reincarnation. Oh well.
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