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J. B.

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

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  • 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.
Chiki Smith

How I Got Over My Cheating Husband - 1 views

When I learned that my hubby was cheating on me, I was so angry that if looks could kill he would be already lying lifeless on the floor. But then, when I took a time off, I felt insecure. I knew t...

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angelapardie

Christian Movie | "Knocking at the Door" | How to Be Raptured to the Kingdom of Heaven ... - 1 views

Two thousand years ago, the Lord Jesus prophesied, "And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go you out to meet him" (Matthew 25:6). "Behold, I stand at th...

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José Bortolato

SALMOS - XXXVI - CONTEMPLANDO A LUZ DA PAZ - 0 views

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What about to be saved by an order of the Holy God that will send you angel stay around and deliver us from tha threats? is not idea or a excessive sensibility it real reason peace within heart believers. Read blessed. This article originally in portugues

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  • José Bortolato on 15 Mar 21
     
    Salmo 34 Quer ter uma doce surpresa? Seja abençoado por Deus, ao contemplá-Lo. Neste mundo vivemos maus dias com alguma frequência. Isto não é pessimismo, é uma realidade que não nos avisaram quando éramos crianças, mas... graças a Deus: esses dias aziagos, porém, não são ainda a nossa
  • José Bortolato on 15 Mar 21
     
    What about to be saved by an order of the Holy God, that will send you an angel that will stay around and will deliver us from tha threats? It is not an idea, or a excessive sensibility, it is real, and is the reason of the peace within the heart of the believers. Read it, and be blessed. This article is originally in portuguese, but you may translate to the language you would prefer.
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