Re: New Poll: More Americans Believe in Devil than Darwin

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:33:07 -0500, "Steven L."
<sdlitvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> opined:

Geoff wrote:
Steven L. wrote:
raven1 wrote:
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:22:41 -0500, catshark <catshark@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

What is perhaps surprising is that substantial minorities in
America apparently believe in ghosts, UFOs, witches, astrology
and reincarnation.
UFOs and astrology shouldn't surprise anybody. Look how many
newspapers and magazines have horoscopes, and there are even entire
astrology magazines; they wouldn't publish these if no one bought
them.
Ditto for the vast number of articles about UFOs in popular magazines
and newspapers, TV shows, movies, websites, etc.

Sure, it's not surprising how many there are based on how pervasive the
literature is. What's surprising is that grown men and women actually
believe this crap...and I'm not just talking about UFO's and astrology. The
fact that better than three quarters of American believe in miracles and 6
in 10 believe in Satan is fucking insane.

It's not insane at all.

The Vatican actually has their own private investigators that go around
investigating phenomena that are claimed to be miracles.

http://www.slate.com/id/2090198/

In the last 1,000 years, they have actually identified a couple dozen
phenomena of what the Vatican has accepted to be true miracles:

http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/engl_mir.htm

So the Vatican believes that miracles HAVE happened in recorded history
since Jesus' death, and they keep records to prove it.

How can a devout Jew or Christian not believe in miracles, if they
believe in the Bible? The parting of the Red Sea, the killing of the
firstborn of Egypt, Jesus healing the blind and lame, the resurrection
of Jesus?

Considering that believing in the resurrection is considered the
absolute minimum doctrine for a Christian, then by definition a
Christian must believe in miracles.
--
Two Creation Scientists can hold an intelligent conversation, if one of them is a sock puppet.
---John Vreeland(IEEE.org) http://rtmabc.blogspot.com

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