86% |
50% |
4 |
| Americans who believe in a God who answers prayers. | Americans who describe themselves as “religious.” | Times that United Methodist Bishop Joseph Sprague, who denies the Virgin Birth, Christ’s divinity, the Atonement, and the Resurrection, has been charged with heresy—and acquitted. |
45% |
33% |
|
| Americans who say personal views guide them more than do God and religious teachings. | Americans who say they are “spiritual but not religious” (11% said neither, 4% said both). |
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Related Elsewhere
Articles related to the Joseph Sprague decision include:
Dismissal of heresy charge called ‘dysfunction’—The Washington Times (February 20, 2003)
Heresy, Salvation, and Jack the Ripper—Christianity Today (February 28, 2003)
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Statistics on the Protestant clergy shortage and The Prayer of Jabez (May 23, 2002)
The number of Americans who say they have no religion is growing (May 8, 2002)
