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No, I canNOT. It's insane.
Especially as there's that bit with King Saul and the Witch of Endor in 1 Samuel 28. Even if you get a factual answer, you probably won't like it.
um, because PT Barnum was right?
My guess is that most people don't actually know what the bible says. I'm guessing that if most people actually knew more of the bible than what you see in movies, most people would be shocked (especially in regards to the Old Testament).
KG's on the right track. When they say "X%" of "Evangelicals", how do they know the people interviewed ARE -- because they identify themselves as such? Doesn't say anything about Evangelical theology, just that a lot of people think they follow it without really knowing just WHAT they are.
I add my "Amen" to all of the above. Many of us have a "Church-ianty"; show up Sunday AM & Wednesday PM and not chasing girls or getting liquored up on Saturday night. We carry the Bible around but only crack it open on Sunday AM & Wednesday PM.
As you can tell by most of my posts, I'm big-time into Republican politics. And it frustrates me that whatever happens 11/7, the unborn are screwed in the state of Florida. The Lord is teaching me that my hope in in the G-O-D, not the G-O-P.
I am thankful that I belong to a church that preaches reading the Bible big-time. Which is why, since 9/11/06, I have been on a program to read the whole Bible in a year. It's the only way I'm going to stay sane.
Those numbers are from the Baylor Religion Survey. To see the form they used, click here:
http://tinyurl.com/yn7esn
Question 74(f) is the Astrology part.
Questions 3 and 4 deal with whether people consider themselves Evangelical. Question 3 lists 12 categories ( Born-Again, Bible-Believing, Charismatic, Theologically Conservative, Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Theologically Liberal, Mainline Christian, Pentecostal, Seeker, Religious Right, Moral Majority) with the respondent being able to check "yes" or "no" to each. Question 4 asks people to pick the *one* that best describes them. We can't tell from the way Christianity Today presents it whether the Evangelicals who believed in astrology were people who said "yes" to Evangelical, or it it was people who said that "Evangelical" best described them.
I think it's important to know which it is. If it's the latter, it excludes all those who consider themselves primarily "Bible-believing" and others whom one would hope would be less likely to believe in astrology.
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