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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

It's useful to see American religion revealed to be an incoherent and inconsistent mess empirically.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/17/i-dont-understand-american-christians/

• A majority of U.S. adults adopted a biblical answer on only 1 of 7 questions about humanity and only 1 of 7 questions about the supernatural. • Only 57% of adults believe humans are God’s creation, made in His image, fallen, and in need of redemption—despite 70% identifying as Christian. • Just 30% of adults hold the biblical view that people are born into sin and can only be saved by Jesus Christ. Among Catholics, that figure drops to 24%. • Only 1 in 4 adults (27%) believes human life is sacred. An equal share says human life has no intrinsic value. • A majority of Americans (52%) consider abortion morally acceptable—and only 1 in 3 adults (33%) describes themselves as passionately pro-life. • Only half of U.S. adults (50%) believe God is the all-powerful, all-knowing Creator of the universe who rules it today—down from a clear majority at the start of the millennium. • One in four adults strongly agrees that Jesus Christ sinned while on Earth. Among Notional Christians, roughly half of all churchgoers, more strongly agreed He sinned than strongly disagreed. • By a nearly 2-to-1 margin, Americans are more likely to firmly believe the Holy Spirit is merely a symbol than to strongly affirm the Holy Spirit as a living entity. • Twice as many adults strongly agree that animals, plants, wind, and water have unique spirits (35%) as strongly disagree (16%). • Nine out of 10 American adults hold Syncretism (not Biblical Theism) as their dominant worldview