Let me log my objections here: My "Jesus question" would have included the concepts that He died for our sins, that He was resurrected and that he was God. I don't see how you can deny those three things about Christ and still have a biblical worldview. Also, question 2 seems almost designed to exclude Catholics, and conservative Catholics have a much more biblical worldview than a lot of people who would answer "yes" to question 2, like say, Fred Phelps.
All in all though, 9% is pretty sad. No wonder the country is going to Hades on a handrail.
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Ping! Thought y'all might be interested in this.
2 posted on
06/30/2004 4:26:02 PM PDT by
Mr. Silverback
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To: Mr. Silverback
"If there is one clear portal to the 20th century, it is a passage through the death of God, the collapse of any meaning or reality lying beyond the newly discovered radical immanence of modern man, an immanence dissolving even the memory of the shadow of transcendence." - Thomas Altizer, Gospel of a Christian Atheism
3 posted on
06/30/2004 4:29:51 PM PDT by
CyberCowboy777
(Veritas vos liberabit)
To: Mr. Silverback
I agree with you on the Jesus question, but I don't get your point about question 2 at all. Not at all. How does that exclude Catholics?
4 posted on
06/30/2004 4:34:17 PM PDT by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
To: Mr. Silverback
5 posted on
06/30/2004 4:34:18 PM PDT by
freebilly
(Vote Kerry-- 1 Billion Muslims Can't Be Wrong....)
To: Mr. Silverback
Also, question 2 seems almost designed to exclude Catholics, and conservative Catholics have a much more biblical worldview than a lot of people
I answered all questions "yes."
I can understand your objection.
Consider, however, that the Catholic is not being asked in THIS survey NOT if he/she has a Christian worldview, but if he/she fits a BIBLICAL worldview.
With that in mind it should enable you, with some justification, to answer number 2 in the affirmative.
6 posted on
06/30/2004 4:36:07 PM PDT by
xzins
(Retired Army and Supporting Bush/Cheney 2004!)
To: Mr. Silverback
They found that only 4% of Americans and only 9% of self-described "Born-again Christians" answered "Yes" to all of them. I'd say that these sound to be very much on the low side, especially the latter.
Anyone else find question #5 to be ambiguously worded?
7 posted on
06/30/2004 4:37:18 PM PDT by
jla
(http://www.ronaldreaganmemorial.com/memorial_fund.asp)
To: Mr. Silverback
8 posted on
06/30/2004 4:39:39 PM PDT by
jpsb
(Nominated 1994 "Worst writer on the net")
To: Mr. Silverback
I suppose number 2 is the only one I have reservations about. Absolute truth is that which is real. (God is what is most real, but His creation is also real in a contingent way.) There are many true things that are not touched on by the Bible, one way or the other. So, yes, the Bible is true, but it doesn't pretend to define all of truth. So I guess I say yes to 7 and maybe to the 8th.
I would agree that the question about Jesus is pretty minimal, but it's easy enough to answer.
9 posted on
06/30/2004 4:40:01 PM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Mr. Silverback
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes.
10 posted on
06/30/2004 4:41:15 PM PDT by
Lexinom
To: Mr. Silverback
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes and yes
11 posted on
06/30/2004 4:41:55 PM PDT by
Rays_Dad
To: Mr. Silverback
Neither Catholics nor any Protestant denominations (and non-denominationals) are exempt from housing those who are Christian-in-name-only. Remember, just because one stands in a garage doesn't mean one is a car. The 9% doesn't surprise me at all.
To: Mr. Silverback
Many called, few chosen. But here's the good news: 4% of 282,000,000 people (total population) is still more than 11 million people who are true witnesses for Christ, in whom the power of the Holy Spirit lives.
Did you know, Mr. Silverback, that we won our War of Independence with only an estimated 4% of American colonists actually fighting the British?
To: Mr. Silverback
Is the Bible accurate in all its teachings? I'd suspect that most people got tripped up on this one. It is somewhat difficult to reconcile a literal reading of the Bible on some issues (especially some of the events of the Old Testament) to modern sensibilities.
20 posted on
06/30/2004 4:47:19 PM PDT by
garbanzo
(Free people will set the course of history)
To: Mr. Silverback
OK, 2 and 8 are my sticking points. The Bible, though inspired by God, was written, translated, re-translated and nit-picked over by MEN. You only have to look at the contradictory versions of the Bible readily available in any Christian book store today.
Any errors (and I know there are errors, any reasoning child of God has to be honest enough to admit that) are the result of those men, not of God.
It doesn't change the Truth contained in the Bible.
When I bump into something that doesn't seem right I ask God to help me figure it out. Somehow He has always managed to provide me an answer that satisfies me. That has never included any input from Jimmy Swaggert, either.
Let the flames commence.
21 posted on
06/30/2004 4:47:21 PM PDT by
Phsstpok
(often wrong, but never in doubt)
To: Mr. Silverback
My answer to all the questions is YES!
23 posted on
06/30/2004 4:48:08 PM PDT by
Remember Ruby Ridge
(SOLUTION: TURN IRAQ INTO GLASS, TAKE THEIR OIL, AND KICK THEIR ASS!)
To: Mr. Silverback
My answers are "No" to 3 questions and "Sure, I suppose, if you insist on putting it that way" to 5.
What do I win?
To: Mr. Silverback
26 posted on
06/30/2004 4:49:51 PM PDT by
Beckwith
(Did Kerry commit murder in Viet Nam?)
To: Mr. Silverback
I don't see how you can deny those three things about Christ and still have a biblical worldview. You can as a Jew.
28 posted on
06/30/2004 4:52:23 PM PDT by
thoughtomator
(End the imperialist moo slime colonization of the West!)
To: Mr. Silverback
yes to all and I'm not even what you call "born again"
29 posted on
06/30/2004 4:53:42 PM PDT by
DameAutour
(It's not Bush, it's the Congress.)
To: Mr. Silverback
36 posted on
06/30/2004 4:57:52 PM PDT by
BunnySlippers
(Must get moose and squirrel ... B. Badanov)
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