God. Real. Right.

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life recently released results of another huge survey of American religious views. One of the more reported features of the survey (it’s on page three–five, as they number it–of the eighteen page summary) involves the claim that some twenty-one percent of those who call themselves atheists also say they believe in God! What’s more, about forty percent of agnostics say they are certain there is a God!
The Secular Coalition for America, a group which mistakenly associates secularism with freedom and which claims to promote the interests of atheists, agnostics, and humanists, tries to make the case that these odd statistics along with some converse statistics indicating that seven percent of protestants do not believe in God are evidence of how difficult it is for an atheist to “come out of the closet.” Clearly, the data is not in support of their claim. In fact, quite to the contrary Read the rest of this entry »