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The Government knows you by a number. Your most universal number is now your Social Security Number. Quite conceivably it could be the Mark
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News: USA Today: View of God can predict values, politics
Posted on Wednesday, September 13 @ 16:23:22 PDT by Mick |
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The United States calls itself one nation under God, but Americans don't all have the same image of the Almighty in mind. A new survey of religion in the USA finds four very different images of God — from a wrathful deity thundering at sinful humanity to a distant power uninvolved in mankind's affairs.
Forget denominational brands or doctrines or even once-salient terms like "Religious Right." Even the oft-used "Evangelical" appears to be losing ground.
Believers just don't see themselves the way the media and politicians — or even their pastors — do, according to the national survey of 1,721 Americans, by far the most comprehensive national religion survey to date.
Written and analyzed by sociologists from Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion, in Waco, Texas, and conducted by Gallup, the survey asked 77 questions with nearly 400 answer choices that burrowed deeply into beliefs, practices and religious ties and turned up some surprising findings:
• Though 91.8% say they believe in God, a higher power or a cosmic force, they had four distinct views of God's personality and engagement in human affairs. These Four Gods — dubbed by researchers Authoritarian, Benevolent, Critical or Distant — tell more about people's social, moral and political views and personal piety than the familiar categories of Protestant/Catholic/Jew or even red state/blue state.
For example: 45.6% of all Americans say the federal government "should advocate Christian values," but 74.5% of believers in an authoritarian God do.
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Re: USA Today: View of God can predict values, politics (Score: 2, Insighful)
 by Mick on Wednesday, September 13 @ 18:17:52 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | How about we conduct a similar study here on Planet Preterist? We could vote on our view of God and then answer the same political questions. It would be interesting to see the composition of the people who frequent PP. |
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Re: USA Today: View of God can predict values, politics (Score: 1)
 by rfwitt (hifive@att.net) on Thursday, September 14 @ 03:50:23 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Let's see - there are about 300 million Americans and they did a poll on 1,721 people and they came up with these brilliant conclusions. For my part they can stop wasting money and do something more productive (like plant a garden).
Just my opinion.................
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Welcome to the criminalization of Christianity (Score: 1)
by EWMI on Friday, September 15 @ 01:07:37 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | The overall topic of Christianity Politics Ethics and Eschatology needs plenty of attention. The article below from WND highlights a disturbing trend now visible all over the Western world:
Welcome to the Criminalization of Christianity
By Janet L. Folger
As I sat in the hearing room, I felt a cold chill – like the chilling effect this court-martial will have on our free speech. For this analogy to be accurate, however, I would need to be sitting in a freezer. At issue in the court-martial of Lt. Gordon James Klingenschmitt, chaplain for the United States Navy, is a name and the freedom to speak it. That name is Jesus. And, according to this week's ruling, the freedom to speak it depends on the context.
Before I could go through the metal detectors to get to the courtroom, a Navy official had already taken Jesus' name in vain. No trial for that. No penalty. No problem. But use the name in reverence, in honor or in prayer, and you'll find yourself looking in the face of a court-martial. Welcome to the criminalization of Christianity.
This case is really about Navy Secretary Donald C. Winter, who ordered that every chaplain in the Navy worship his god – the "government god" of "non-sectarian" goodness who has no name and certainly no son by whom someone might be offended. But Chaplain Klingenschmitt told Navy Secretary Nebuchadnezzar, uh, I mean Winter, that he couldn't bow to his government god and had to proclaim the God of the Bible – who has a Son with an illegal name.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51979 |
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Re: USA Today: View of God can predict values, politics (Score: 1)
by rfwitt (hifive@att.net) on Friday, September 15 @ 03:49:15 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Polls show that Americans:
"91.8% say they believe in God"
Scriptures tell us 100% of demons believe in God (and they shudder)
James 2: 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that--and shudder.
Richard.............
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