Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Popular Belief in God

http://christiananswers.net/spotlight/movies/discernment/hollywoodandgod.html

Whoever said Jesus and God were diminishing values in America were far off. I just read this brief commentary about Ray Comfort's book, "What Hollywood Believes". It seems like the media (broadcast news channels or magazines like Times and Newsweek) have been promoting this upcoming belief that God should be taken out of the Pledge of Allegiance. But according to Comfort's book, 87% of Americans want to keep God in the Allegiance. That is a very high percentage so it seems obvious that the 13% who are against God in the Allegiance are the ones writing these articles for the magazines and news channels. Because the daily American watches the news or reads these magazines, it's starting to seem like this rejection of God is a popular belief when really it's only because we are getting our news from that 13%!!!
What Comfort's book is mainly about is how Hollywood's views on God/Jesus make it seem like the whole country feels the same way because 45% of Hollywood does not have religious affiliation but that is nothing compared to the 4% of the entire American population. 45% may be a weighty percentage for one city but compared to the percentage of the whole country, it's minuscule. Perhaps that 4% comes from Hollywood. But Comfort explains that most of the country has religious affiliation, and the three biggest religions in America (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) all believe in the same God. Perhaps 96% of the population does not feel the requirement of removing God from the Allegiance since they all believe in God. Does that 4% really feel so strongly about removing God from the Allegiance or do particular people writing in the media blow it out of proportion and start brainwashing people into thinking this is the popular belief just to stir up controversy?

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