Poll Shows Nearly Half of British Adults Don’t Believe Jesus Performed Miracles

[phands]

Good news. Except that more than half still believe that the non-existent did the non-possible.

What does Thomas Jefferson have in common with nearly half of the people in Britain?


They don’t believe Jesus performed any miracles.


That’s one of the eye-popping results from a new survey from polling firm ComRes, commissioned by the BBC. They asked British residents about their beliefs regarding miracles and found that many people don’t buy the superstitions at all.

http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/...adults-dont-believe-jesus-performed-miracles/

 

[ideologyhunter]

Didn't Hurricane Jeffy just destroy all of the UK? It was a News Alert on Fox.

 

[ruby sparks]

Do miracles happen?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06mmyz4

Excerpt from BBC1 'Sunday Morning' progamme from 2 days ago.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Believing in magic feels pretty good unless one has forgotten what it felt like to be a child. So I think continuing to believe in magic as an adult has a deeper physiological explanation. It's like pretending you won the lottery and what you're doing with all that dough. That feels pretty good. It's just not real. I think that's what believing in miracle stories amounts to, short the "it isn't real" part.

Do miracles happen?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06mmyz4

Excerpt from BBC1 'Sunday Morning' progamme from 2 days ago.

Good clip. Short and to the point.

 

[phands]

Didn't Hurricane Jeffy just destroy all of the UK? It was a News Alert on Fox.

I think it was masked by the Tsunami that destroyed Sydney.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Do miracles happen?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06mmyz4

Excerpt from BBC1 'Sunday Morning' progamme from 2 days ago.

That clip exposes a bit of Dunning Kruger if you don't mind my saying. The gentleman says that's how miracles work, that if you pray you just may end up being the one in a million that wins the lottery, that it's not supposed to work for everyone. I don't know what kind of mind makes up such a rationalization except one that isn't very bright, doesn't understand science in the least or even appreciate natural systems and how they work.

He obviously does not understand that what happens according to his prayers happens without his prayers in exactly the same way and to the same degree. It must simply make him feel good to think the way he does.

 

[Keith&Co.]

That clip exposes a bit of Dunning Kruger if you don't mind my saying.

I dunno. Dunning-Kruger tends to be applied to people unable to think their way out of a wet paper sack, not those unwilling...

This is a carefully crafted thought process made expressly to reassure people that their god exists, and because of 'reasons,' his exercising of his Will is completely indistinguishable from a godless universe. That's skill.