Surveyed Americans Believe in Biblical Truth

CBN News

December 22, 2007

CBNNews.com - Most Americans believe the stories in the Bible are
true, according to new research by the Barna Group.

The survey asked U.S. residents their take on some of the Bible's
stories.

Here are the results.

It was found that 75 percent of adults believe that the story of Jesus
being born to the virgin Mary is the literal truth. Sixty-eight
percent of adults surveyed believe that Jesus fed 5,000 with just five
loaves of bread and two fish.

Barna also holds that 64 percent of adults surveyed believe in the
story of Noah's Ark and the Flood that covered the entire earth.

Another survey Barna conducted questioned Americans on six other
significant Bible stories.

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:45:09 -0800 (PST), Sound of Trumpet
hotpop.com> enriched this group when s/he wrote:

On Dec 28, 11:57 am, Ye Old One mcsuk.net> wrote:

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:45:09 -0800, Sound of Trumpet wrote:

And UFOs and the Loch Ness monster and Big Foot and the stock market and
home equity loans...

--
Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:08:02 -0800, guardian Snow wrote:

--
Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:45:09 -0800, Sound of Trumpet wrote:

There was a time when most Americans believed in slavery (because the
Bible gave then justification). With luck, we'll outgrow you and your
Bible too.

--
Enkidu AA#2165
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not
understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
-- Mark Twain

One fine day in alt.atheism, Sound of Trumpet hotpop.com>
bloodied us up with this:

A widely held lie is still a lie.

Sound of Trumpet wrote:

Sound of Trumpet wrote:

Most Americans would rather watch a monster truck pull than Othello.

Most Americans would rather listen to Brooks & Dunn concert than Getz &
Gilberto.

Most Americans would rather go see Jeff Foxworthy than george Carlin.

Most Americans would rather drink Miller Lite than Chimay Bleu and Gallo
rather than Chateauneuf-du-pape.

Most Americans thought Bush was a good president before March 2003 and look
how nicely that turned out.

That's right H.L., no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the
American public and no one ever lost a bet underestimating their
intelligence. Each citizen's vote should be weighted based on the number of
years they managed to stay in school.

On Dec 27, 4:45 pm, Sound of Trumpet hotpop.com>
wrote:

This might be the natural ape in humans doing its thing. Still if
religious behavior is an instinctual drive, makes it slightly easier
to believe such things than not, it doesn't argue for whether the
object of religion is true or false. Sorry about the offensive pun,
the more religious one is the more apish and flesh driven one is. But
it would be funny if religious behavior turned out to be like one of
Apostle Pauls, "sins of the flesh." (Galations)

1. Certain religious ideas, specifically, the personal nature of
"spirit" persist in cultures worldwide.

2. There are certain concepts that our minds easily entertain. Much
like language acquisition, the mind automatically receives certain
concepts more readily than others.

3. Religion ...is the normal product of normal human minds,
functioning in the normal way, and that the normal way is the normal
way because of the evolutionary design of the human mind.