A Washington Post poll found that 80% of Katrina’s survivors said that the event strengthened their faith in God.
In the recent Gallup Millennium Survey of religious attitudes, 49% of Danes, 52% of Norwegians, and 55% of Swedes said God did not matter to them. 64% of Czechs regarded God as not mattering at all. While 82% of Americans say God is very important to them, less than 20% of Europeans make such statements. Source: Utne Reader, Sept-Oct 2004
A 2004 ICM poll found that 98% of Nigerians claimed always to have believed in God, while 90% of Indonesians said they would die for their God or religious beliefs.
A govt. study in Ireland found that 87% of the population believe in God. 19% said tragedies such as the Asian tsunami, which killed 300,000 people, bolstered their belief.
In Kuwait, doubting the existence of God or Islam is punishable by law.
Americans believe 58% to 40% that it is necessary to believe in God to be moral. By contrast, only 13% of Europeans agree.
87 percent of all white evangelical Christians in the U.S. supported President Bush's decision to go to war. Recent polls indicate that 68 percent of white evangelicals continue to support the war.
Most if not all atheists believe that religion aids and abets superstitious behavior, but, knock on wood, I see no evidence of that. The bible itelf is crammed with factual errors because the ancients understanding of the natural world was sorely lacking, so of course there could not have been a diety present who provided such bad scoop. True believers counter with man most mortal simply screwing up what God said, but God should have taken the time I suppose to clear up some of the really horrendous whoppers. Guess he got disgusted after seeing Mohammed rape his umpteenth victim and took a hike to maybe Alpha Centauri for some better modelling clay.
Would explain a lot.
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