{"id":15719,"date":"2013-02-02T12:44:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T18:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=15719"},"modified":"2013-02-02T12:44:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T18:44:21","slug":"the-superbowl-and-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/02\/the-superbowl-and-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The Superbowl and God"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Public Religion Research Institute has conducted a poll about the Superbowl They found:<\/p>\n

27% of Americans believe that God plays a role in determining which team winds a sporting event.<\/p>\n

53% of Americans believe that god rewards athletes who have faith with good health and success<\/p>\n

42% of Americans don’t think that those 53% of Americans are correct.<\/p>\n

By religion, there is variation in the percentage of people who believe that god determines the outcome of sporting events, or that god rewards athletes of faith. They have a graph:<\/p>\n

\"God<\/a><\/p>\n

50% of Americans are fine with athletes making public shows of their religiosity during a sporting event. An amazingly low 4% don’t approve. Which is funny, because every single person I know disapproves of this, religious or otherwise. I suspect this may be the way the question was asked (in this poll, 45% don’t think it matters).<\/p>\n

And now, for the scary bit, the part that proves that most Americans are not<\/em> patriots:<\/p>\n

Nearly 9-in-10 (89%) Republicans agree that public high schools should be allowed to sponsor prayer before football games, compared to more than three-quarters (77%) of independents and nearly 7-in-10 (68%) Democrats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Are those same people also against due process, freedom of speech, and the right to own a firearm? I think not. Makes no sense. Why religiously believe that failing to have strong beliefs that conform to the Constitution makes one evil, except here and there? WHY?<\/em><\/p>\n

The survey is here. <\/a><\/p>\n

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Photo Credit: Ed Yourdon<\/a> via Compfight<\/a> cc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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