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Nearly half of Americans uncertain God exists: poll
AFP ^ | 10/31/06

Posted on 11/01/2006 7:56:52 AM PST by presidio9

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To: stuartcr

Not my job to debate semantics or faith with people.

The poll is being reported as showing that there's some weakening of religious faith in the US because 42% of the people polled answered that they weren't "absolutely certain" about the existence of God. "Very certain", "Quite Certain" or just "certain" don't cut it...only "absolutely certain" will do.

52% of Americans are "ABSOLUTELY certain" about the existence of God?
Really?
No they aren't.


61 posted on 11/01/2006 10:11:41 AM PST by Vicomte13 (The Crown is amused.)
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To: raftguide

"But I think if the question were 'Do you believe a creator exists?', the results would have been far more favorable."

Sure would have been!
The poll was phrased using extremist language: "ABSOLUTELY certain".

People who are absolutely certain of something don't slip up. Everyone is absolutely certain about gravity. So nobody steps off a high building in the dark in the hopes of catching gravity napping.
Nobody who was ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN about the existence of God would ever commit a sin, for the same reason nobody ever takes money from a cop's wallet when the cop is standing right there looking at it.

Phrase the question in terms of absolutes, and plenty of people of deep faith will answer perfectly honestly that they are not ABSOLUTELY certain.

Absolute certitude is the belief we each have in gravity and kinetics. Nobody EVER takes chances with absolute certitude. Nobody steps off a building or steps in front of a bus hoping to catch physics napping.

Nobody would sin either, if they were as CERTAIN about God as they are about gravity.


62 posted on 11/01/2006 10:16:44 AM PST by Vicomte13 (The Crown is amused.)
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To: Vicomte13

I agree. I don't see how anyone can be completely certain.


63 posted on 11/01/2006 10:27:41 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: presidio9

Nearly half of Americans will wake up in the Lake of Fire.


64 posted on 11/01/2006 10:28:40 AM PST by balch3
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To: stuartcr

I've seen an angel.
I'm as certain as certain can be...but not as certain as I am about gravity.
Because I MIGHT be nuts and not have REALLY seen an angel, but fall down still goes boom and hurts like hell no matter how you dice it.


65 posted on 11/01/2006 10:37:37 AM PST by Vicomte13 (The Crown is amused.)
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To: Vicomte13

How did you know it was an angel?


66 posted on 11/01/2006 10:42:47 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: pray4liberty

If God truly has a plan for all of us, how is it that He observes, but doesn't control what happens?


67 posted on 11/01/2006 10:44:26 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: presidio9

As was said on South Park a few weeks back, one out of four Americans is stupid.


68 posted on 11/01/2006 11:09:34 AM PST by technochick99 ( Firearm of choice: Sig Sauer....)
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To: metmom; tutstar; duckbutt; Fiddlstix; somniferum; WKUHilltopper; DieHard the Hunter; NZerFromHK; ...

Baptist Ping,

while 93 percent of Christians who describe themselves as "Born Again" feel certain God exists.



And the other 7% haven't ever been Born Again


69 posted on 11/01/2006 11:14:45 AM PST by WKB (I Refuse To Have A Battle Of Wits With An Unarmed Person.)
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To: stuartcr

Even more to the point.....How can someone be born again and not know?


70 posted on 11/01/2006 11:17:20 AM PST by CindyDawg
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To: 50sDad

[ Headline: "Screwtape Says Dems Proven Excellent in Muddying Waters of Right And Wrong!" ]<p.
LoL.... i.e. Screwtape Letters.. -C.S. Lewis


71 posted on 11/01/2006 11:22:49 AM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole.)
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To: presidio9

This is stupider than their usual stuff. Just more agenda driven trash.


72 posted on 11/01/2006 11:24:46 AM PST by Luke21
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To: tophat9000
Silly question... every one has a god

Erm, no.

73 posted on 11/01/2006 11:30:12 AM PST by ThinkDifferent
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To: stm
"If you live you life as if there is no God, for your sake, you better be right"

Of course, if you do believe in a God, you still have to pick the right one.

74 posted on 11/01/2006 11:32:35 AM PST by ThinkDifferent
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For your reading pleasure [sic]. Just how do they choose people? They never ask me anything. And if less people believe in God is that supposed to affect His transcendent eternal existence somehow? Or my belief in Him? Even if everyone else in the world ceased to believe, that wouldn't affect my convictions. Nor anyone else who accepts God in truth.

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75 posted on 11/01/2006 11:37:00 AM PST by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah
93 percent of Christians who describe themselves as "Born Again" feel certain God exists.

??? What is the point for the 7% who are not certain?
If one is Born, it is bizarre to think that your Father may not be real.
76 posted on 11/01/2006 11:42:02 AM PST by GrandEagle
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To: presidio9

This is one poll we can be sure they did not poll the dead.


77 posted on 11/01/2006 11:43:28 AM PST by Ingtar (Prensa dos para el inglés)
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To: ThinkDifferent
Silly question... every one has a god

Erm, no.

Erm, Yes... your "god" is what ultimate truth you follow ... even if you believe there is no truth..even if your an atheist...even if it's pure science/ logic... that your god... your idol....even if it's yourself...your god is what you put first to follow...Your "Uber Allis"

But is that personal "god" really "God" (the real ultimate universal truth)

78 posted on 11/01/2006 12:04:41 PM PST by tophat9000 (FYI To the Left: The Klu Klux Klan also started as a "terrorist insurgency" group)
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To: CindyDawg

Yeah, how would they know they had really been born again?


79 posted on 11/01/2006 12:08:10 PM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: ThinkDifferent

If there is only one God, who do you pick from?


80 posted on 11/01/2006 12:10:07 PM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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