Uneducated and Evangelicals most likely to think hurricanes "wrath of God"

[Proud2BAmurkin]

Are the recent hurricanes a deliberate act of God? Yes No

All Respondents 23% 67%
Evangelical Protestants 33 61
Non-Evangelical Protestants 13 76
Non-Religious 17 65
Catholics 15 78
18 to 34 32 60
35 and Older 19 71
Earns $25K or Less 34 57
Earns $75K or More 21 70
High School Grad or Less 31 61
College Degree or More 11 79

Source: ABC News/Washington Post poll

[XanaDUer]

1. Gotta link?

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[ClintonTyree]

2. DUH!

Another stupid poll we could all have given the answers to before the questions were asked.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Highest points 34 for Earns $25K or less. Next highest for Evangelicals 33

[Zynx]

4. That poll actually made me proud to be Catholic.

[Nikki Stone 1]

10. Catholics have a tradition of scholarship and philosophical inquiry

As do Anglicans, Lutherans and other Protestant traditions. That doesn't prevent certain elements in these churches from being closed to higher thought, but, on the whole, education is not inimical to these traditions.

[benddem]

5. where do you think

the 11% with college degree or more got their degrees? Liberty U?

[janedoe]

6. They are probably correct!

After all, Bush thinks he IS God. ;-)

[StClone]

7. What amazes me is that if a Disaster happens anywhere

The uneducated and Evadingrealiticals will see God's righteous hand even if their own church is ripped apart. And incidentally not killed in the event, they'd see that as a sign of some sort. Gawwwd it is maddening that they what Bush's disaster's to end us all for their search of a non-existent afterlife.

[mzteris]

8. Young people today

tsk tsk tsk........ in 18 to 34 age range - 32% think YES?

Seriously, what is WRONG with them? Isn't it usually "young" people who "question authority", reject the Church, etc?

[leeroysphitz]

9. There is a Subgenius proverb that says:

"EVERYTHING is a sign of the end times!" It's a joke, of course but it does seem to cover a lot of people lately.

For some people ANY natural disaster is surely a sign of gods wrath being directed at somebody... This is very old superstitious propaganda. It's both tiresome and sad that now in the first decade of what should be a shiny new millennium we still contend with this sort of unsophisticated ignorance.