MSNBC Poll: Spirituality

[Roland99]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9014628/site/newsweek/


More questions than their normal surveys but interesting nonetheless.

[wli]

1. biased against atheism and conflates it with agnosticism n/t

[tomg]

8. Absolutely agree.

I also find such surveys frustrating because they are asking what are, I think, fundamental questions and trying to reduce them to the theological equivalent of how we feel about Big Macs. You want cheese with that salvation. No thanks, I'll take the ranch dressing. I'll have the transubstantiation, but my friend wants the consubstantiation.

Still, of course I took the poll. The only thing I like more than taking polls is complaining about how stupid the polls I just took are.

[Roland99]

9. heh heh

[wli]

2. holy cow! I looked at the responses and I'm terrified!

I need to emigrate ASAP.

[Lecky]

Why?

Are you really surprised that there are so many religious people in this country? Being religious is not necessarily a bad thing...I know many fantastic religious human beings.

[wli]

14. see fundies... see overwhelming numbers of Christians...

Looks like a lynch mob to me, and it feels rather threatening. I suppose it's a matter of being in such a tiny minority.

[drfresh]

19. There are many kinds of Christians

Its just the right-wing/fundies who have the loudest mouths. Fear not.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Thanks. I have added this to the list of

spirituallity quizzes on my site. (Although to be honest, I don't think this was a veyr good one. I would have chosen multiple choices per most questions.)

[go west young man]

4. On reasons for prayer I was wondering why they didn't list fear.

[EnfantTerrible]

5. It's a given?

n/t

[yurbud]

6. scary cover--is she waiting for the flying saucer or Koolaid?

[Roland99]

7. Reminds me of the "rapture chick" CNN had down at the Schiavo gig.

[yurbud]

11. that pic was what ruined the whole deal for them--semi-sane cons

saw that and ran the other way.

[Roland99]

13. AH! I knew I had that pic!

[Roxy66]

10. Took it

[jsamuel]

12. I am disappointed in this answer:

Which of the following do you think is the most important purpose of prayer?

To help others 3% 13%

(For Christians, isn't this what Jesus was all about?)

[Lecky]

15. I was surprised by these results:

For Evangelical Christians--can a good person who isn't of your religious faith go to heaven or attain salvation, or not?

RESPONSES WEB NEWSWEEK / Beliefnet

Yes 48% 68%
No 30% 22%
Don't know 22% 10%

I thought "no" would be the majority response from Evangelicals...

[CitrusLib]

16. I had the same reaction!

Half of my family are Evangelical Christians and they are positively ADAMANT that someone of a different faith (even another sect of Christianity!) will go straight to hell without passing Go. Of course, this is the same group that think dinosaur fossils are a practical joke by God and dinosaurs really didn't exist.

[Lecky]

17. Yeah Evangelicals are a confusing bunch...

I've met the type you describe, but I've also met some very tolerant, kind and compassionate Evangelicals who don't make a habit out of judging others. I have no problems with the latter, but it's idiots like Jerry Fallwell and Pat Robertson who use their faith to excuse their hatred they have for those different from themselves...I have little patience for "Christians" of that ilk.

[CitrusLib]

18. I don't have patience for them either.

That's what makes Thanksgiving so damn difficult every other year. I come home with a hole in my cheek from frequent biting.

:evilgrin: