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Do you believe in the Devil?

~60% of American adults consider Satan to be only a symbol of Evil and not a real being.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_sat4.htm

Among other Christian nations, the belief in a real being called Satan tends to drop of rather dramatically.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/rel_comp.htm

So if we look at Christianity making up 33% of the world and less than half believing in Satan...

The belief of Satan as a real being is a minority view worldwide (including the United States).
 
I have a new nickname for those who don't believe in God.

I call them: seven-percenters.

Why 7%'ers? Because 93% of respondents favored keeping "under God..." in the Pledge of Allegiance.

The masses, in the US at least, are against you.

The descendants of Islam are from the family of Ishmael (family of Abraham) of the Bible. Allah is the same as the God of the Holy Bible.

P.S. Don't forget to vote. :D
 
Riddick said:
I have a new nickname for those who don't believe in God.

I call them: seven-percenters.

Why 7%'ers? Because 93% of respondents favored keeping "under God..." in the Pledge of Allegiance.

The masses, in the US at least, are against you.

The descendants of Islam are from the family of Ishmael (family of Abraham) of the Bible. Allah is the same as the God of the Holy Bible.

P.S. Don't forget to vote. :D
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Do you not read your own posts? Where did either your or I mention God?
 
The masses, in the US at least, are against you.
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Oooh, argument from authority!!

Uh... uh... okay... yeah! I'm convinced! 93% of Americans can't be wrong!
 
The poll brings "The Usual Suspects" to mind. Probably one of the best movies to come out of Hollywood in a long long time. Verbal Kent, the "Man with the Plan". When he quoted the famous "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn't exist."


Makes sense if you think about it. If I was Satan you really wouldn't want people to believe you existed right? I mean, sure you got your obvious loyal followers, but that's a small minority. Deception is always the key, wouldn't you think?
 
Okay...ignoring the totally irrelevent part about the pledge, no I don't believe in the devil. People have the capability for good or evil. Blaming the devil for their evil actions is as absurd as praising God for their good ones.
 
DangerousBeliefs said:
Do you not read your own posts? Where did either your or I mention God?
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Inherent in Christianity is the belief in God is it not?

You were talking about Christianity, weren't you?
 
Lisa Simpson said:
Okay...ignoring the totally irrelevent part about the pledge, no I don't believe in the devil. People have the capability for good or evil. Blaming the devil for their evil actions is as absurd as praising God for their good ones.
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Well...I'm not really for the idea of us being "Satan puppets" or "God puppets".

We can make a choice to *hypothetically speaking* commit murder, and that is...shall we say...an evil deed.

We can choose to love our neighbors...and that might be a choice to do rightousness.
 
Riddick said:

Inherent in Christianity is the belief in God is it not?

You were talking about Christianity, weren't you?
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As a demographic and not as a belief. Hence all of the percent symbols. Where are you going with any of this by the way?
 
Blaming the devil for their evil actions is as absurd as praising God for their good ones.
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I don't believe that. I hate people like that. They often say "Its God's will". The other one too, like "the Devil made me do it." I mean your choose to do good or evil actions. I never got that. You know, "Well it's gods will." I don't think a God would will some hijackers killing thousands of people or will mass genoicide.


Like when some guy murders goes on a killing spree or someone is charged with murdering their wife or something. The parents and neighbors go "Oh, he could never have done it." or "Our son would never do something like that."

Hell, I could kill my own family. I wouldn't do it though. I mean I wouldn't put it past my brother to kill his girlfriend. Sure, I don't think he would ever do that. But we all have the capacity to kill. We choose not to. Well......most of us :D
 
Huh? I was making a case for free will. People choose good or evil and God/the Devil have nothing to do with it.
 
I was referring to your quote about blaming the devil. As to imply if you "believe in the Devil" you'd have to therefore believe that the Devil is to blame.
 
7%?

Heck, I'm WAY better than that.

There are clubs for the 2%, 1%, all the way up to .001% for intelligence.

For another perspective, about half of everyone in the world suffers from below average intelligence. How close to half is according to how wide a bar you want to provide for "normal".

Striving to be "average" is like tying to be stupid. At least from my perspective.

From Riddick's perspective, I'm sure "average" is something to aspire to.
 
circuit slave said:
I was referring to your quote about blaming the devil. As to imply if you "believe in the Devil" you'd have to therefore believe that the Devil is to blame.
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What's the point of believing in the devil unless it's for someone to blame for evil?
 
What's the point of believing in the devil unless it's for someone to blame for evil?
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perhaps bettter understanding on a theological level, not just a scapegoat for responsibility. The topic is "do you believe in the devil" you could believe their maybe a master plan and not just random evil deeds, but perhaps a " CEO of sorts behind the crooked deeds."

IMHO, you can believe the possibility of Satan as some supernatural being and still without making it a target for blame.
 
and yet Christianity is still a minority religion in the world. So, most folks in the world don't believe in that christian devil. Ah, but while "majority rules" applies to the US, I'm guessing "we're an oppressed minority" works for the worldview, even Christians.
 
Ladewig said:


Do you have a source for the 93% figure?
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With Riddick? Who knows?

He may be referring to an Associated Press poll where "almost nine in 10 people said the reference to God belongs in the pledge despite constitutional questions about the separation of church and state."

Of course, that actual figure is 84%.

But 93? 84? Close enough.

What does this have to do with a belief in an imaginary advisory of an imaginary deity? I haven't got the foggest.

Evidence that the Devil exists Riddick?
 
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