Stats on faith?

The next great awakening?

about 40 percent of Americans today say they have attended services at a house of worship in the last week. But when that figure is compared with the actual attendance rates reported by denominations, pollsters believe, about half of the folks who say they went to church or synagogue were lying.

Either that or the pollsters inflated their numbers to make the country appear more religious than it really is and now they're lying by claiming that those who were polled lied. Or...this is just proof of the statistical insignificance of the poll. Perhaps 40% of those polled really did attend services in the last week. That doesn't mean that 40% of Americans did. Especially if the pollsters did a shitty job of assembling a random sample.

FOLLOWING FAITH IN AMERICA


92

PERCENT OF HOUSEHOLDS OWN A BIBLE

What the hell does that have to do with faith in America? I own several Bibles and I'm an atheist.

59

percent say they read it at least occasionally


37

percent say they read it at least once a week

Again...so?? I read Bible passages occasionally and I have no faith.

75 - PERCENT OF AMERICANS SAY THEY ARE CHRISTIAN, BUT . . .


50 - percent of adults interviewed nationwide could name any of the four Gospels of the New Testament


37 - percent could name all four Gospels

42 - percent could list as many as five of the Ten Commandments correctly


12 - percent believe Noah's wife was Joan of Arc

Of course, that last one doesn't really have much bearing on the intelligence of Christians. Seeing as how it's only 12% of the population, they could've all been non-Christians (75% say they're Christians, which leaves 25%..that 12% could fall in there, but it probably doesn't -- completely).