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September 18, 2008
Why Was This On The News?
Okay, so it's bad news.
More than half of all adults, including one in five of those who say they are not religious, believe that they have been protected by a guardian angel during their life, according to a new survey by Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion.The survey polled 1,700 respondents of diverse religious faiths: evangelical Protestants, black Protestants, mainline Protestants, Catholics and Jews.
Researchers found that a belief in guardian angels, affirmed by 55 percent of respondents, is a phenomenon that crosses religious, as well as regional and educational lines.
ABC News devoted about 2 minutes of precious news time to this story. And I didn't detect a hint that Charley Gibson or Dan Harris had even the smallest concern about it. And my local CBS News even wasted away a couple of minutes on this survey.
The whole thing is disturbing. So I decided to watch this film clip a couple of times to try to get over it.
This film clip speaks of a real guardian angel. The guardian angels that ABC News and the senior pastor at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, interviewed in the piece, were talking about remind us how far we have yet to go.
Please note: there is nothing in reason, science, and freethinking that excludes poetry and song and dance and love. Science, or perhaps better the general epistemological approach that underlies it, makes those wonderful things all the more wonderful.
Film clip via Pharyngula.
Posted by Duane Smith at September 18, 2008 7:38 PM | Read more on Religion |
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You are so going to Hell!
I saw this report too. Amazing. . . .
Posted by: Alan Lenzi at September 18, 2008 11:04 PM
Well, if somebody, especially a university, does a survey, then it will be on the news. What I want to know why people do surveys like these. What are they trying to achieve? If you ask a stupid question like this, you are likely to get incoherent answers.
Posted by: Aydin at September 19, 2008 9:20 AM
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