We should move this offlist.
Poor, Edmund W wrote:
Off topic, but is it really this high? I'd heard lower. I guess like all surveys and statistics, it depends how you ask the question and how you work the data ...
According to a survey released the other day, "half the atheists and agnostics surveyed believed that everyone had a soul, that heaven and hell existed and that there was life after death. One in eight atheists and agonistics believe that accepting Jesus Christ as savior probably makes life after death possible."
http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-heaven1024,0,7895415.story
So, you know, not to disparage anyone's personal beliefs or anything, but really it seems that people believe all manner of, ah, interesting things.
--Jimbo