02.28.2009 7:30 am
Pew Study: Women More Religious Than Men
Special to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Feb. 26, 2009
March is Women’s History Month. A new analysis of data from the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, finds that women are more religious than men on a variety of measures.
See the graphic here.
Anthony Bradley, 36, is assistant professor of apologetics and systematic theology at Covenant Theological Seminary (Creve Coeur) and Research Fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. He holds a PhD in Historical and Theological Studies from Westminster Theological Seminary and is frequently called upon by members of the broadcast media for comment on current issues and has appeared on NPR, CNN/Headline News, and Fox News, among others. 
`Pew’ study on religion. Interesting coincidence.
According to this study, females are substantially more gullible that males when it comes to believing in supernatural beings and religious ideas. Perhaps people of different genders are “wired” differently, or perhaps they are conditioned differently, or some combination. Maybe bearing children influences females willingness to Believe? Maybe their historical subjugation influences their willingness? Maybe males are influenced by their duty to compete at work and fight in war? The underlying causes are interesting, but only of moderate interest to me, especially since little regarding specifics is shown here.
The study also shows that substantial numbers of people (in the study group) are still compelled to Believe in fictional supernatural beings that capriciously manipulate events and creatures on Planet Earth. If you are reading this post, then there is at least a 50/50 chance that you are one of them. If so, do you have any factual or unequivocal evidence that any of the beings present in your Beliefs are real? I know you Believe they are, I am just asking if you have evidence to support your Belief.
Personally, I am aware of a great deal of evidence, and it all points to “God” being imaginary. Just to make my position clear, I understand that “God exists”; and simply observe that all the factual, useful, and unequivocal evidence indicates that “God is imaginary”. Do you have any evidence that “God is real”?
Probably not, so perhaps a more stimulating question is “What do you gain by Believing “God” is real”? Similarly, another is “What do you gain by believing the truth as exposed by the evidence?” Of course, there is another pair “What do you lose by Believing “God” is real, or Understanding that “God” is imaginary”? These are intriguing questions to me; how about you? Believer or not, do you have a mind that is open enough to consider consequences not only for yourself but also for a society assembled wholly of one type of individual or the other? If so, what do you think is gained or lost?
Ahhhh, grasshopper…
There is nothing to gain….