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mulelisa wrote: My husband just handed me today's "USA Today" newspaper and on the front page is an article about how 55% of adults, regardless of religious background, believe in the presence of angels.
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"I would never have expected these numbers. It was the biggest surprise to me in our findings," says sociologist Christopher Bader of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Baylor today will release results of its second national survey on religion.
The survey, based on interviews with nearly 1,700 adults in fall 2007, updates Baylor's 2006 findings on religious affiliation and views of God by adding new questions on topics such as gender and politics, the environment and beliefs about evil.
Members of almost every major religious group sensed angels running heavenly interference: evangelical Protestant, 66%; black Protestant, 81%; mainline Protestant, 55%; Catholic, 57%; Jewish, 10%; other religions, 49%; no religion, 20%.
"People's sense of the divine is remarkably widespread and tangible, even if they don't call it God. Clearly, there's a sense of the sacred prevalent throughout society," says Matthew Gilbert of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, Calif., which studies subjective experiences using scientific techniques.
Just as people have many different images of God, so they have different ways of interpreting "guardian angels" or God's voice, says Kenneth Pargament, a psychology professor at Bowling Green (Ohio) State University who has written on spirituality and the psyche. When people think of being protected, "they may not be envisioning an angel with wings so much as a loved one who has gone before them and is looking after their well-being," Pargament says.
Many respondents said they have "heard the voice of God" or "felt God speaking to me." That too can be an internal spiritual sense, not literally words in their ear, says Pargament.
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buckdoff wrote: Improper Username, the cat on your avatar looks exactly like one we had at our other house, she unfortunately passed away. We really miss her.
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galen98 wrote: I don't see dead people, but they do come to visit my dreams. Mom had a recurrence of breast cancer, after an eight year remission. Shortly after the diagnosis, I dreamt that my grandmother (who had died 12 years earlier) was sitting in my dining room, saying " Victoria, (my mom), where is your father? (also dead). We have to get going!" This was so characteristic of my poor grandmother! She was always waiting for Grampy! The dream didn't upset me, although I guess it was a warning that Mom wasn't going to beat the disease this time- she died about 8 months later. I've dreamt of her several times since. In the dreams, we're both aware that she has died, but there's no sense of it being odd. The dreams are very comforting-she's happy, and she has hair! (which she didn't at the end.) After her mother died, she had dreams about her, until the final one, when Mom said to her "You're not supposed to be here anymore." That was the last dream Mom had of her mother. This does make me sad, because that's what happened in the last dream I had about my mom (about 6 months ago.)
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