Heaven and Hell exist (Hell is a place without Wal-Mart)
• Wishful Thinking
The average American boob thinks he's destined for eternal bliss. Probably thinks heaven has an infinite number of cable channels.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans in the national survey said that they believe they will go to heaven.
The survey, released this week, found that 76 percent of Americans believe in heaven and 71 percent in hell -- same as a decade ago.
Proof that most Christians have never read the Bible, know nothing about Christian theology or church history:
Pollster George Barna, a former Protestant minister who founded the research group, noted that one out of 10 people who describe themselves as born-again Christians -- those who believe entry into heaven is solely based on confession of sins and faith in Jesus Christ -- also believe that people are reincarnated in another form after death, which violates Christian tenets. Nearly one in three claim it is possible to communicate with the dead, and half believe that a person can earn salvation based upon good deeds even without accepting Christ as the way to eternal life.
Agnostics are often just wafflers. I'm not sure how many people who call themselves such have a clear conception of what they are saying. Possibly it is a statement of (understandable) uncertainty. If anyone calling himself an atheist thinks he has a soul he needs to open a dictionary.
Many who describe themselves as either atheistic or agnostic also harbor contradictions in their thinking, he said. He said half of all the atheists and agnostics in the survey said every person has a soul, that heaven and hell exist and that there is life after death. One in eight atheists and agonistics even believe that accepting Jesus Christ as savior probably makes life after death possible.
The Los Angeles Times: In our humble view, we will go to heaven