| dtewi said: What's the point of the first two polls? If I said I didn't like Burger King, why would you post the reasons to choose a Burger King restaurant? Polls 1, 2, 3 and 5 are basically irrelevant to this discussion. Poll #4: People were asked to give multiple responses. Also, I didn't mean CONTINUE to believe which Poll 4 seems to deal with, I mean that people started to BELIEVE in Christianity out of those two reasons. You're saying why they continue to believe, I'm saying why they start. Would you care to find a poll that shows why people START believing? |
You argued that 'Fear and Indoctrination are why people signed up for church'. I gave you studies concerning why people went to church.
As for why people start believing:
1. The good design / natural beauty / perfection / complexity of the world or universe (28.6%)
2. The experience of God in everyday life (20.6%)
3. Belief in God is comforting, relieving, consoling, and gives meaning and purpose to life (10.3%)
4. The Bible says so (9.8%)
5. Just because / faith / the need to believe in something (8.2%)
And the six most common answers given to the question Why do you think other people believe in God?:
1. Belief in God is comforting, relieving, consoling, and gives meaning and purpose to life (26.3%)
2. Religious people have been raised to believe in God (22.4%)
3. The experience of God in everyday life (16.2%)
4. Just because / faith / the need to believe in something (13.0%)
5. Fear death and the unknown (9.1%)
6. The good design / natural beauty / perfection / complexity of the world or universe (6.0%)
Now, if you have any other polls and surveys expressing that fear and indoctrination are the core components of a belief in God, I'd love for you to share them. Afterall, your aguing why people become Christians.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
