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July 27th, 2011
11:58 AM ET
Poll: 52 percent approve of God’s job performanceBy John Blake, CNN (CNN) - If you think voters are in cranky mood over politics, a new poll suggests that some of the dissatisfaction may run deeper. God’s job performance has trouble measuring up to many Americans' expectations, according to a poll by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm based in North Carolina. Only 52 percent of Americans approve of God’s job performance, the survey found, though just 9 percent disapprove.
The polling question that prompted this curious response was, "If God exists, do you approve or disapprove of its performance?" "When asked to evaluate God on some of the issues it is responsible for, voters give God its best rating on creating the universe, 71-5," the polling report said. "They also approve of its handling of the animal kingdom 56-11, and even its handling of natural disasters 50-13." Dino Grandoni cited the poll in a blog for the Atlantic Wire:
Public Policy Polling used automated telephone interviews to survey 928 American voters from July 15 to 17. The voters were represented by a mix of liberal, moderate and conservative voters. The poll's margin of error was +/-3.2%. |
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This article sounds like grade-school religion.
Only because people with unlearned and small minds actually believe in this crap, but the rest of us are intelligent enough to discuss it without getting our panties in a wad.
52%? Boy, but you people are far too kind. I'd give him a flat zero and nothing more. I couldn't have created a world this screwed up if I tried and I don't have a fraction of the powers theologians have attributed to this god – well, maybe a little more than that...
We live in a Universe of matter over mind and that's the worst possible place you could ever put humans and those who must consume to live. I would have created instead a universe of mind over matter – no wars, no death, no destruction.
Trust me on this one, but this god we apparently have running rampant around here is one flaming idiot, and If any of you ever get to talk to him, tell him I said so. WE have a few old scores to settle.
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Clay
All the troubles on Earth are/were created by Man, not God. Earth was a little slice of Heaven when Adam and Eve first arrived. God loves you and hopefully one day you will find God and his message for you. Open you eyes.
I'm sure god would approve of your answer because it takes all of the load off of him. But I don't buy that flimsy excuse for even a nanosecond. Or did you forget about the all-knowing(omniscient) , all-loving and all-caring part of his or her supposed nature?
He seems to be falling down on practically all of those points to me – as any starving kid in Africa or anywhere else might tell you who live where the Earth is definitely not providing, even for the birds and beats of the field.
Adam and Eve never existed. 99.99999999% of the universe is completely and utterly hostile to life. And is has been for about 14 billion years before the Adam and Eve story was ever conceived
We heve the power to destroy this world and wipeout humanity too, that may be a profound answer of your demise.
Good point, Brandon. Curious that he would make such a huge percentage of the Universe hostile and in fact deadly to those made in his image.
comment section of religious artical = atheists ranting against religion
lol, get a life people.
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CNN taking a pole on GOD's job performance.
I rate HIM 100%
As for fallen mankind who has tried to compete with HIM, I would rate us at zero %.
We can follow HIS was which are pure. So if we even attempt to score HIM, we are all fools.
Get this clear in your feable little minds, we cannot fathom what HE has in store for us.
Let's just judge our performance since the garden of eden. That was the last time everything was perfect. And we blew it.
GOD wants the very best for us, but we continue to refuse it. We think we can do better without HIM.
Well, how is that working out for all of you?
When you are ready to stop your ways and adopt HIS, let the rest of us know.
THANKS AND GOOD NIGHT.
HIS grace and mercy for all of us. We need it.
Well said ! Best post so far. God Bless.
These are always my favorite posts, the ones that RANDOMLY put things in ALL CAPS to make a POINT. A+ for standard evangelical lockstep, my friend.
100% on point, well articulated....
Very good points, Are. Keep on posting!
@sam
I believe and worship in the one true GOD, hence my reverence to HIM. HE is the KING of kings, LORD of lords, HE is GOD above all other gods. You god(s) are not worthy of HIM.
guys guys guys, if i do not believe in god, why are you guys going to give me a hard time. I am sorry that I do not have imaginary friends, but you seem pretty insecure by telling me that i have to believe in god. This new was hillarious, i think... keep it up CNN
Of course the ratings are down. Stupid voters don't know enough to vote for GOD with their hearts, not their hands !
It amazes me that so many people claim to be "non-believers" when there is so much evidence that God is here with us every day, and Jesus was here on Earth. The Earth itself and your own life are proof enough. As the cynics say, "The Bible was written by humans", yes, but only after witnessing the miracles of Jesus' life and death and resurrection. It may be imperfect because it was written by humans and not God, but it is the guidebook for living. For those in CNN and elsewhere who judge God, I feel sorry for you. You should watch out for lightning bolts. You don't judge God, God judges man.
so are you saying that you have an imaginary friend?
prove it is more than a story
Tell whatever lies you want, there is no evidence at all that anything in the bible ever happened. None. There were 30 known historians in Jerusalem at the time that fairy tale supposedly took place and not one of them mentioned any of the events from the bible. It's all lies and fairy tales.
> It amazes me that so many people claim to be "non-believers" when there is so much evidence that God is here with us every day, and Jesus was here on Earth. The Earth itself and your own life are proof enough.
It amazes me that people naturally go towards a God because they don't understand "how it could have happened". I'm sorry but not knowing how something occured does not mean a God did it.
> As the cynics say, "The Bible was written by humans", yes, but only after witnessing the miracles of Jesus' life and death and resurrection.
Actually, the earliest book was written about 40 years later. And then the following books were changed to meet with the political and social issues of the day. Not to mention, many books were cut out by man.
> It may be imperfect because it was written by humans and not God, but it is the guidebook for living.
Then God clearly doesn't care about us having accurate information and knowing what it really wants.
> For those in CNN and elsewhere who judge God, I feel sorry for you. You should watch out for lightning bolts. You don't judge God, God judges man.
I judge God based on my own intellect because that's all I can use. You can say that it's not right, however, the only minds that have been proven to exist are the minds of humans. Now, when God does silly, stupid and needlessly complex things, despite being all powerful, that's when my human intellect says "That's stupid."
God impregnated a woman with himself to give birth to himself to have himself spread the message that he himself wanted. To make a loophole for a sin that he created, God sacrifices himself to himself in a mock blood ritual, because he'll raise himself from the penalty of death imposed by himself on himself to prove that he himself is the one true God.
That's stupid.
No, actually, the events weren't recorded by the people who witnessed them. They were recorded by people who got them third-hand from people who were already believers. Even if we give those believers the benefit of the doubt and say that they honestly believed they saw the events, that doesn't eliminate the possibility of hallucination or self-deception.
Ever play the game "Telephone", where you tell something to one person, they tell it to the next person, and so on in a circle until by the time it gets back to the first person, it's completely different. The Bible is basically a game of telephone that's been going on for 3,000 years.
You should take a trip to Africa sometime, might pit the reality of the world in perspective for you
It's "Him", not 'it's'. Seriously...
Prove it.
not if its a her
I agree and take offense to CNN's label of "its" rather than God being called "Him".
Call him whatever you want: Allah, God, Him, It, She, YWH... Same thing.
I invented MALARIA for you guys and killed 20 billion of you with it , and you still give me 52%?
We can't understand God, for he is infinite. We believe that it has reason beyond our reasoning.
Or you could think of it that way too if you don't believe
Yeah, aha, and we can't understand Hitler... your argument makes no sense. I love it how Christians always defend immoral acts of GOD by claiming "he works in mysterious ways" ... Yeah, Hitler also worked in mysterious ways...
Does this mean God won't be running for re-election next year?
He may need to launch a bus tour.
Noone can take his place, so hes staying I guess
winning a majority vote on anything in America is meaningless, yet quite dangerous at the same time. Bush was voted in twice by America... that destroyed the US's perception around the world and he was in the driving seat for the biggest financial breakdown ever, not to mention the wars, WMD's etc etc. He is one of these idiots that will think this god creature is doing a fine job and is looking after his "sheep" So while this pretend person in the sky is always in the conversation and behind many of the religious peoples reasons for doing things, we will stand still as a species, probably even go backwards, which are starting to see with whats on TV these days or if you try to have a conversation with a child...but hey, its all becuse god moves in mysterious ways, so that makes it ok. Good job God, but if you were working in the real world and had this type of performance, you would have had your pink slip and been a homeless bum long ago! I will put on my metal hat now:)
Actually Bush lost the majority vote, the only reason we wee subjected to him as president was because of the archaic electoral college system
the only thing more shocking than the fact that he even got above 50% is the fact that AMERICANS gave him this score lmfao. The most prosperous country on the planet which has every possibly luxury available. while the rest of the worlds children starve to death, Americans watch reality TV on their sofa. Unless of course the people voting to into account the rest of the world, I'd say God has earned himself a solid 3 to 15% approval rating. War, disease, poverty, starvation, clean drinking water, genocide. He's done nothing about. some god…
lol i agree
Why would God make that horrible stuff? Its beyond our understanding, and remember how there is a devil
Jesus rules!!!!! He preaches nothing but love for me. 10 commandments are my guiding light.
Thank you for a much-needed lift in my – er – spirits today! Leave it to the religious nut jobs, though, to take this article too seriously and take the fun out of it. If you doubt for a moment that God might just have a sense of humor...take a long look in the (full-length) mirror. Without your clothes on.
It is freaky that people get so angry, defensive and agressive towaards those who do not believe in God. Why care? That's the part I don't get. You believe so everyone has to believe? That does not make you seem too secure. Believe what you want and let others have their own beliefs. Seems fair enough.
It's because they know deep down that they have no real reason to believe in a God. They just do because they like it.
Because it touches on their own insecurities about dedicating a significant portion of their life views to an invisible sky God.
July–I agree. You believe what you want to believe (or not), and I'll believe what I want to believe (God exists), and then we could then agree that the name-calling and vitriol that seems to permeate these posts have not place in a civilized debate. I understand why atheists and agnostics who are offended when Christians tell them they are immoral and/or their going to Hell. But, the, to address your specific question: "It is freaky that people get so angry, defensive and aggressive towards those who do not believe in God. Why care?" Perhaps its that many here, too, say things that are designed not to further a debate, but to childishly seek the very reaction you are complaining about–i.e., "mythical man in the sky," "uneducated," "unintelligent," "backwards," "Hillbilly"–I can go on. To the Christians reading this post–show love, as commanded by our Lord. Don't be so thin skinned by nothing more than school yard name calling. To the atheists and agnostics–show love (do you really need a reason)? Don't be so thin skinned by nothing more than school yard name calling.
Oops–wish this had a spell check–meant "they're" not their.
Only Democrats would think of a poll like this....
Yeah, but Republicans answered.
I've yet to meet a republican that wasn't indoctrinated into Christianity since birth, so that's a pretty safe statement
I've meet a few that were not
Tool.
I know this doesn't relate directly to the article but people on here are talking about how god gave us all free will.
I just wanted to say that there is no such thing as free will. All we are are animals that will react to their surroundings a certain way. The only reason we are better off than all the other animals is that we do a much better job at learning from our mistakes and not doing something stupid again.
There is no soul, there are just chemical reactions in the brain that lead to us doing stuff.
If you were a neurosurgeon, you could potentially make someone do whatever you wanted them to just by rewiring their brain a bit, even if doing that thing was originally the worst thing that person could think of, they would still do it.
Souls don't exist, there is no afterlife, there is no god.
sorry.
This is one of the few times I have seen an athiest get it right. Amen, brother.
How sure are you? Are you willing to bet your life on it?
"The only reason we are better off than all the other animals is that we do a much better job at learning from our mistakes and not doing something stupid again."
I disagree. We keep electing Republicans.
Maggie, I am willing to bet my life on it.
And Chris,
.. ... We're not THAT good at it.. Just better than the rest of the animals on this planet
Yes, I am willing to bet my life that there is no such thing as free will and that the world will be much better off if everyone discovered and accepted this fact.
Yes Maggie, we are.
Well atheist. You are right we dont have free will. But wait how did you come up with that conclusion? Free will is the path to choose what your path is. Yes a chemical reaction is how this takes place but thats like a blueprint is the same thing as the building. What seperates the animals is they dont choose to eat, sleep, procreate and so on. This is pure instinct. And yes I know that we have instinct but we can choose to ignore it.
As regards to a soul. Look up Einstein's theory. Your energy signature. The math got to the point that it was impossible to prove either way. So I am sorry but your free will seems to have lead you astray from the truth.
MikeC,
You don't choose your path, you only think you do. What happens is you react to a series of inputs (what you see, hear, smell, feel) and you respond with a single output. It's only after this output is decided that our concious mind says that we decided that over a different response.
If you're watching a live feed of the reactions in someone brain, you can actually tell what decision that person is going to make about something before they do. Your "choice" is just your concious mind trying to make it seem like it has control when in reality it doesn't.
Everything in my life has led to me the path that I'm on, it's not what I chose, it's just what happened.
They don't choose not to do those things because it's stuoid not to do those things. Their very existence is based upon them doing those things. Any animal that would be so defective as to not do those things would have been weeded out by natural selection millions of years ago. My dog certainly makes other choices of his free will on a continual basis, much to my chagrin.. The way chemical reactions and electrical pulses between neurons work is a blueprint set down by evolution, you can follow its evolution by studying species of increasing complexity
Let's not forget...The difference between a cult and a religion is about 2000 years.
Fairy tales people, nothing but fairy tales.
Oh wow. Judging from these comments this "poll" appears to have gotten the Bible Babblers panties all in a bunch.
god...my least favorite fictional character...I like batman better
Clearly you're wrong and stupid for thinking so.......
Superman would own batman anyday of the week.
You are wrong, the best is now the green lantern LOL !
Batman has no powers. He is a man with a cool suit. I agree, Superman would destroy batman. Batman is slightly more effective than Aquaman.
YOU ARE ALL WRONG – CHUCK NORRIS COULD KICK ALL THEIR BEHINDS WITH BOTH HANDS TIED BEHIND HIS BACK?
Is this a joke? Man was given freedom to act for themselves by God. I would say God should have an approval rating for man...not the other way around. What a joke!
Which god are you referring to in your statement: Thor, Zeus, Aphrodite. I need to know to verify your statement.
Obviously the joke went over your head. Whoever you've been listening to is either a wack job or simply lying to you.
Oh Kirk, you are the very personification of a unintelligent fundamentalist ... Thanks, you made my day.