• 389aaa [it/its]
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    4 years ago

    Why wouldn't they? They're a pretty standard feature of Christian religious belief. Frankly, I'm surprised it's not higher.

    • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Huh, I guess I was assuming "belive in angels" meant "believe in angels that go around intervening in human affairs." In that case it's probably not really that much of an obstacle.

      • 389aaa [it/its]
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        4 years ago

        Ahhh, yeah that's fair, that'd be bonkers. Given 96% believe in some kind of god, and the vast majority of those are gonna at least nominally subscribe to some kind of Abrahamic faith, probably Christianity, I'm actually kinda shocked by how low just 77% is.

        • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
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          4 years ago

          I looked it up, in 2019 65% of Americans identified as Christian, but it's been steeply declining. So, it's about what I'd expect.

          • 389aaa [it/its]
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            4 years ago

            Huh, that's lower than I remembered. Interesting. I guess 77% does make more sense in light of that, yeah.

          • Rem [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            Weird that the number of angel believers would be higher than the percentage of chirstians. I assume Jews and Muslims (Islam has angels yes?) don't make up the difference. Like where do they think the angels come from?

            • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
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              4 years ago

              77% is probably an older figure from when America was more religious

              edit: wait, it says "A majority of non-Christians think angels exist" so I might be back to thinking the study fucked up or is being presented in a misleading way or something. Like, people took "angels" in a metaphorical sense or something.