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Why do Americans claim to be more religious than they are? - By Shankar Vedantam - Slat... - 0 views

  • Americans are hardly more religious than people living in other industrialized countries. Yet they consistently—and more or less uniquely—want others to believe they are more religious than they really are.
  • When you ask Americans about their religious beliefs, it's like asking them whether they are good people, or asking whether they are patriots. They'll say yes, even if they cheated on their taxes, bilked Medicare for unnecessary services, and evaded the draft. Asking people how often they attend church elicits answers about their identity—who people think they are or feel they ought to be, rather than what they actually believe and do.
  • self-reported church attendance has been held up as proof that America has somehow resisted the secularizing trends that have swept other industrialized nations. What if those numbers are spectacularly wrong?
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  • actual "church attendance rates for Protestants and Catholics are approximately one half" of what people reported.
  • nearly 50 percent more people claimed they attended services when asked the type of question that pollsters ask: "Did you attend religious services in the last week?"
  • in reality about 21 percent of Americans attended religious services weekly—exactly half the number who told pollsters they did.
  • Brenner found that the United States and Canada were outliers—not in religious attendance, but in overreporting religious attendance. Americans attended services about as often as Italians and Slovenians and slightly more than Brits and Germans. The significant difference between the two North American countries and other industrialized nations was the enormous gap between poll responses and time-use studies in those two countries.
alexis sullivan

Don't Want to Let You Go - Associated Content - 0 views

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    This is a religious poem written by Alexis Sullivan. In this poem the author expresses the desire to remain with Christ forever. It is simply a declaration to never let Him go.
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One Last Chance - Associated Content - 0 views

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    This is a religious short story written by Alexis Sullivan. In this story a prostitute attends church and receives Christ.
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Is There No One? - Associated Content - 0 views

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    This is a religious poem written by Alexis Sullivan. In this poem God has taken a look around and seen the despair and desolation flooding the world and begs his Children to take action and spread His Word.
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Come Away with Me - Associated Content - 0 views

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    This is a religious poem written by Alexis Sullivan. In this poem God speaks and asks his children to dwell with him in his Secret Place.
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Love - Associated Content - 0 views

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    This is a religious short story written by Alexis Sullivan. In this story God (called Love) has created Earth, watches our birth, is with us throughout our life, and holds us when our life ends and we reach heaven.
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Flight of the Butterfly - Associated Content - 0 views

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    This is a religious short story written by Alexis Sullivan. In this story a young woman lives an empty and incomplete life until she receives Christ and experiences a life-changing transformation and becomes a new person.
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Mercy - Associated Content - 0 views

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    This is a religious short story written by Alexis Sullivan. In this story a man has lived an incomplete life and after years of searching for meaning he waits in the Room of Despair when he is saved by Christ.
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Saved - Associated Content - 0 views

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    This is a religious short story written by Alexis Sullivan. In this story a man's spirit is being tormented by Satan in the Room of Hopelessness until He is rescued from Satan's grasp by Christ.
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The Desert - Associated Content - 0 views

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    This is a religious short story written by Alexis Sullivan. In this story an ordinary man is living his life but in the "spirit realm" his spirit is aimlessly wandering a barren desert until he saved by Christ.
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Words from Him: Come Back - Associated Content - 0 views

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    This is a religious monologue written by Alexis Sullivan. In this monologue God is speaking and He asks His children to return to Him.
Ebey Soman

Religion and Ethics: Impossible Choices - 0 views

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    Impossible Choices presents the story of two women pregnant with fetuses that had major defects, each had to decide whether to give birth or terminate the pregnancy. This is the story of Leslie, who is from Virginia, and Mary Jo, who lives in New Jersey - both church going women faced with a moral, ethical and religious dilemma.
Ebey Soman

Religion and Ethics: Down Syndrome - 0 views

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    Down syndrome is a genetic disorder (involving an extra copy of chromosome 21) that leads to moderate intellectual disability, as well as a range of physical and health problems. Screening for Down syndrome during pregnancy can be done in a number of ways. The religion and ethics program presents two different women and the tough decisions they had to make after screening their babies for Down Syndrome. Are their actions morally right? or ethically allowable? or religiously authorized?
Pastor Jeff Lilley

Young Adults "Less Religious," not Necessarily "More Secular" - Jesus Links - 0 views

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    Just the ramblings of an old Pastor and Servant of God. Some exciting, some boring, some to get you thinking, some to make you laugh and some to make you cry. A few reflections on life in general, occasional asking of your opinion in different projects and aspect of development of new studies and Ideas, and a few observations, stories and accounts on what I've been doing and observing on an hourly, daily, weekly or up to the minute reports.
Pastor Jeff Lilley

File This Under Wierd Religious Ceremonies or Ouch That Really Hurts - Jesus Links - 0 views

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    Just the ramblings of an old Pastor and Servant of God. Some exciting, some boring, some to get you thinking, some to make you laugh and some to make you cry. A few reflections on life in general, occasional asking of your opinion in different projects and aspect of development of new studies and Ideas, and a few observations, stories and accounts on what I've been doing and observing on an hourly, daily, weekly or up to the minute reports.
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Born Again! - Are You? - 0 views

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    Jesus came to try to make Salvation as EASY as He possibly could!-And that's why the Religionists crucified Him, that's why they killed Him, because the Church System of the day as good as said it couldn't be done without THEM, without following all of their complicated laws, traditions & religious rigmarole! But Jesus came and showed them that they didn't have to go to church on Sunday-or Saturday or Friday or any other day of the week! They didn't have to follow the Church laws and rules and regulations and the Ten Commandments and all the rest. All they had to do was simply confess that they were sinners and needed Salvation and ask Jesus to give it to them!
Pastor Jeff Lilley

Jesus Links - Something to Think About - Jesus Links - 0 views

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    Just the ramblings of an old Pastor and Servant of God. Some exciting, some boring, some to get you thinking, some to make you laugh and some to make you cry. This is a place for me to get some stuff I am currently working on in focus. With a few reflections on life in general, occasional asking of your opinion in different projects and aspect of development of new studies and Ideas, and a few observations, stories and accounts on what I've been doing and observing on an hourly, daily, weekly or up to the minute reports.
Pastor Jeff Lilley

Religion Linked to Higher Paychecks - Maybe for You, but Not for Me!! - Jesus Links - 0 views

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    Just the ramblings of an old Pastor and Servant of God. Some exciting, some boring, some to get you thinking, some to make you laugh and some to make you cry. A few reflections on life in general, occasional asking of your opinion in different projects and aspect of development of new studies and Ideas, and a few observations, stories and accounts on what I've been doing and observing on an hourly, daily, weekly or up to the minute reports.
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