This is another incredible statistic.
1. I'm shocked that only 56% of Assembly of God asserted that. That MUST be a function of newer younger members more influenced by the culture.
The AoG congregations I've been a part of 99.99% of the congregants have asserted that. And, I think a number of the one's I'm aware of currently would have a higher percentage of congregants asserting that than 56%. Mystifying.
I know a head AoG Pastor in Lousiana. There's no way he'd let a Pastor under his care and influence in that state get away with teaching anything different about satan being a real character.
Nevertheless, 17% for RC's believing such is even more shocking.
The haughtiness of a number of RC's hereon castigating Dr E and I as being tools of satan becomes hilarious in terms of this statistic. Evidently 83% of their RC cohorts would be just as convinced that Dr E and I were tools of the Pillsbury Doughboy!
24/7/365 Proddys get hereon this bunch of hot fetid air constantly about how monolithically in agreement, unified, homogeneous, pristinely sanctified, in unity for the whole of the [1600] VAIWSOTARM INSTITUTION'S existence . . . yada yada yada the RCC is on a list of theological dogma, issues.
Proddys have, for a few years now, asserted on FR that such is simply NOT THE REALITY. NOT THE CASE. . . . THAT such brazenly untrue assertions are THOROUGHLY INACCURATE, WRONG, FALSE.
As usualy, we are then characterized as hateful, lying, ignorant etc.
Yet, once again, solid factual data from reliable surveys indicates that the Proddys have been right all along. The Vatican Alice In Wonderland School Of Theology And Reality Mangling is ANYTHING BUT homogeneous in its theology and certainly in its public pronouncements and practices of same. Perhaps most outrageously, the vast majority of the folks in the pew are a LONG ways from the more conservative elements of the very heterodox hierarchy.
This statistic is merely yet more proof of such sad facts.
I was already coming to the reluctant conclusion that most of the RCC pontificators on FR were dreadfully ignorant of their own church; of reality; of history and of Scripture . . . and tend to therefore write far more out of their on extremely narrow biases, tunnel vision, pseudo-Mary-aura'd-farcical-fantasies and the like.
Now, I'm being pushed somewhat reluctantly to the perspective and conviction that most of them REALLY ARE THOROUGHLY OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY . . . PARTICULARLY about their own RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION.
Obviously, in their terms, 80% or so of the self-identified Roman Catholics have LEFT MOTHER CHURCH as well--in all but name and social conventions only.
Yet, somehow it's the Proddys who are ignorant and outside the fold.
What an outrageous farce. Obviously, by the time they cleaned up their own house, they wouldn't have much energy or time left to be so arrogant toward Proddys.
Right on, Quix!
What appears to be the case is that they are writing more out of what they want the church to be (the ideal RCC) than what it actually, in reality, is.
Sure, *No REAL Catholic would support _____* or *No REAL Catholic would believe/teach/do _______*, but the world is filled with Catholics who the FRoman Catholics like to include in their head count as representing Catholicism when it comes to *proving* how big they are, but who they then turn around and deny are *real* Catholics when those same Catholics are exposed to be flaming liberals.
The hypocrisy abounds.