The US has long ranked high among the world’s nations in its level of religious belief. But the Pew Research Center examined just what 80 percent of Americans actually mean when they say they “believe in God.”
Here’s what its survey of more than 4,700 adults found:
56% of Americans believe in God “as described in the Bible.”
97% God is all-loving
94% God is all-knowing
86% God is all-powerful
God determines what happens in my life…
43% All of the time
28% Most of the time
16% Some of the time
6% Hardly ever
6% Never
Talking with God…
56% I talk to God and God does not talk back
39% I talk to God and God talks back
