It's worth noting that the survey was commissioned by a Christian agency.

I feel that one problem with surveys such as this is that - depending on how the questions were phrased - it will probably be assumed from the result that the God prayed to was the Lord God, which is why i very rarely refer to "God" -- there is an un-breakable connection in my mind between the Lord God and "God", and "God" seems to be used as a term of reference to several different concepts of Deity - at least, here on IFF.


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Well, while they might manipulate the data, remmeber that such surveys are usually conducted by profession public opinion agencies, and their reputations are on the line. It's possible the result is misrepresented, of course, but not 100% certain.


Now that is a big problem. Even if results are not misrepresented, the fact is the type of question actually asked, the order of the questions, what other questions were asked (since most surveys are "piggy-backed" on supposedly unrelated other matters..but sometimes there are connections between them).

But, all that said, I find the results interesting but not surprising. I think they would likely hold in most developed societies, within about 5%

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