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The other day some one mentioned any of these surveys consistently have about a 5% troll rate. The 77% belief in angels is bizarre though. Like I believe in th
by ridgered4 4y ago
The other day some one mentioned any of these surveys consistently have about a 5% troll rate.
The 77% belief in angels is bizarre though. Like I believe in the possibility of aliens, the universe is quite large. Although I think all spacecraft sightings are almost certainly just mundane stuff from spy planes to weather balloons, etc. I even believe in the possibility of ghosts being real, more likely some strange phenomenon we can't explain that we might misidentify as ghosts. But angels?
One man's angel is another man's ghost or alien though I guess.
- wardedVibe 4y agoif you buy into god, angels are on par with aliens, possibly even more probably present.
- Dove 4y agoIndeed. According to [1], it would appear 58% of the US officially believes in angels by creed (Protestant, Catholic, Mormon, Orthodox, Jewish, or Muslim). Only 11% are atheist or agnostic, and there's a 30% group that's religious but "unaffiliated" or "other". I totally buy that two thirds of "religious but unaffiliated or other" would believe in angels. The difference here is that to the religious mind, angels are credible in a way that UFOs, ghosts, and magic are not. (The irreligious mind probably finds them all equally credible, hence the disconnect.) Put another way, it would not surprise me that someone who was "religious but not affiliated" might have a high regard for the Bible. Angels figure prominently in the Bible, and hence fall in that bucket. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_in_the_United_State...
- wpietri 4y agoI would be very interested to see a citation on the troll rate.