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Nearly 7 in 10 U.S. adults believe in angels, AP-NORC poll finds

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Compared with the devil, angels carry more credence in America.

Angels even get more credence than, well, hell. More than astrology, reincarnation, and the belief that physical things can have spiritual energies.

In fact, about 7 in 10 U.S. adults say they believe in angels, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

The large number of U.S. adults who say they believe in angels includes 84 percent of those with a religious affiliation — 94 percent of evangelical Protestants, 81 percent of mainline Protestants and 82 percent of Catholics — and 33 percent of those without one. And of those angel-believing religiously unaffiliated, that includes 2 percent of atheists, 25 percent of agnostics and 50 percent of those identified as “nothing in particular.”

Jennifer Goodwin of Oviedo, Florida, also is among the roughly seven in 10 U.S. adults who say they believe in angels. She isn’t sure if God exists and rejects the afterlife dichotomy of heaven and hell, but the recent deaths of her parents solidified her views on these celestial beings.

Goodwin believes her parents are still keeping an eye on the family — not in any physical way or as a supernatural apparition, but that they manifest in those moments when she feels a general sense of comfort.

The angels in the Bible do God’s bidding, and angelic violence is one part of their job description, said Esther Hamori, author of the upcoming book, “God’s Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible.”

“The angels of the Bible are just as likely to assassinate individuals and slaughter entire populations as they are to offer help and protect and deliver,” said Hamori. She doesn’t believe in these angels, but studies them as a Hebrew Bible professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York where she teaches a popular “Monster Heaven” class.

“They’re just God’s obedient soldiers doing the task at hand, and sometimes that task is in human beings’ best interests, and sometimes it’s not,” she said.
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Nearly 7 in 10 U.S. adults believe in angels, AP-NORC poll finds

Americans' belief in angels (69 percent) is about on par with belief in heaven and the power of prayer, but bested by belief in God or a higher power (79 percent), according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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They believe in the idea, but have no idea what to believe about them, what they are, why, where and when. They don't know the scriptural sources. They like the romantic ideas related to it such as "angels protect my baby/me/my loved ones".
 
I was actually kinda, sorta religious in high school. I was something between Catholic and Episcopalian, I guess. A few weeks of college level biology changed all that hocus pocus shit. I still sometimes believe in a God - in the Creator sense. But ascending the great escalator to heaven and having a talk with St Peter and seeing everyone on my family tree? Nope. This is it, folks. There's no time like the present. Enjoy it.
 
They are real my friends, and they fill the heart with peace and love.

I didn't really see one, but I felt it's presence.
 
Crakhobarbie said:
So you "believe" they're "real", not because of any viable evidence.... but because you "feel" it...
Wow....
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If it gives him peace, why knock it? Maybe the angels are really within us, but wherever they come from, they don't deserve derision, barbie.
 
Overitall said:
Do you have a point?
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Do I have a point, OR does the author of the article have a point? And what is the point of asking me if I have a point? This is a debate forum. If you don't like a topic or the way it is being presented, boo hoo, too bad. When you become the site owner you can tell people what they can post or not post. So you can either participate in a discussion of whether or not believing in angels is a good thing or not, or move on to a different discussion more to your liking.
How is THAT for making a point?
 
Yes, angels are real...so are Satan's angels...

"And the angels who did not keep their original position but forsook their own proper dwelling place, he has reserved with eternal bonds in dense darkness for the judgment of the great day." Jude 6
 
MaryP said:
If it gives him peace, why knock it? Maybe the angels are really within us, but wherever they come from, they don't deserve derision, barbie.
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"feeling" like an angel is looking after us is like when I was a kid and had an imaginary friend I called Johnny (I kid you not). It made me feel good to have someone to talk to when in distress, but believing in ACTUAL angels is something else altogether, isn't it?
 
SNOWFLAKE said:
Do I have a point, OR does the author of the article have a point? And what is the point of asking me if I have a point? This is a debate forum. If you don't like a topic or the way it is being presented, boo hoo, too bad. When you become the site owner you can tell people what they can post or not post. So you can either participate in a discussion of whether or not believing in angels is a good thing or not, or move on to a different discussion more to your liking.
How is THAT for making a point?
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Relax. You started a thread without any personal commentary from yourself. Asking what your point is is a reasonable question. One that shouldn't make you defensive.
 
Crakhobarbie said:
So you "believe" they're "real", not because of any viable evidence.... but because you "feel" it...
Wow....
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I said I felt it's presence, past tense of feel, and what is viable evidence to me from my own personal experience is not empirical evidence to anyone else that was not with me at the time.

However what happened to me can not be explained by anything you would call possible, it would fall into the realm of what you would call impossible. That does not change the fact that it did happen, so I would warn you to keep an open mind and realize there are things about the universe that our primitive understandings of science and physics can not yet explain.

If you keep that in mind, then you understand that some beings we may perceive to be angles may well exist beyond this physical life.
 
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OTOH....approximately 50% "believe in" the scientific fact of evolution.

LOL!

So to recap: 70% of Ameritards believe in "angels".....and about 50% "believe in" evolution.

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nvflash said:
I said I felt it's presence, past tense of feel, and what is viable evidence to me
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Great.
It's charming that your standards for "evidence" is set so low.
I'm guessing you're a Republican?
 
MaryP said:
If it gives him peace, why knock it? Maybe the angels are really within us, but wherever they come from, they don't deserve derision, barbie.
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Hey, whatever gets him through the night.
But, if you state how you "feel" here, you can expect a response.
 
One of the few things the US does lead the planet in, self-delusion as influenced by religion in the hands of self-serving and corrupt lunatics.
 
Crakhobarbie said:
Great.
It's charming that your standards for "evidence" is set so low.
I'm guessing you're a Republican?
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Well I mean all the evidence on your left points to the fact that I am not a member of any political party whatsoever, so your ability to read any evidence at all seems to be lacking.
 
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