Posting Postponed

September 11th, 2008

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Well, folks, tonight’s post on earplugs suddenly required a lot more research than I’d planned. I have most of the information ready to go, but if I start writing it now, I might keep my “Ed-itor” up all night. So I will most likely finish up this post and get it out the door this weekend.

In the meantime, here’s a link I’d been meaning to put up here anyway. It’s a story from The Economist, the content of which is interesting enough in its own right. However, it’s the poll they cite in the story that really grabbed my attention. How can 70% of Britons call themselves Christians while only 25% say they have a personal God? (Though this 25% is for all religions in the survey.) What do the (at least) other 45% have?

Around 25% of Americans call themselves evangelicals, so I think it’s safe to say that this trend does not carry across the Atlantic. Then again, half of Americans don’t know who preached The Sermon on the Mount. (If you are American and you guessed someone other than Jesus, you are in this category. It’s too bad, The Sermon on the Mount is my favorite part of the New Testament.)

I guess this just goes to show the astonishing gap between identifying with Christians, knowing about Christianity, and actual practicing of the faith. I would never imagine that the three could diverge as much as they have. Then again, I guess that’s no more astonishing than the fact that Republicans are both the party of most Christians and the party of big business and the rich. In the New Testament, they say it’s harder for a rich man to get into heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. I guess a lot of people never ended up reading that far. They would have found out that Jesus was maybe the world’s first Socialist. That doesn’t sound very Republican. Some things I’ll never understand…

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2 Responses to “Posting Postponed”

  1. Matt Says:
    September 11th, 2008 at 11:34 pm

    I once had an evangelical of the “God wants-me-to-be-rich” variety explain to me that the “eye of the needle” was actually the nickname for the city gate and so it was really easy for a camel to pass through. Obviously this is a ridiculous argument, but that just shows the kind of hoops one is willing to jump through to avoid cognitive dissonance.

    Yep. Confirmation bias and wanton justification at its ugliest. Good point.

    - Dave

  2. Bob Says:
    September 12th, 2008 at 10:34 am

    I heard a podcast where a guy was talking about how he would like to see “cultural christians” in the same vein as cultural jews. Maybe Britian is proceeding down that path.

    You might be right, Bob. It’s an interesting thought.

    - Dave

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