NEW HARRIS POLL EXPLAINS WHY THIS COUNTRY IS HEADED FOR A FALL AND IT IS NOT THE FAULT OF THE GOVERNMENT, MEDIA OR ANYTHING BUT OURSELVES. AWESOME.

I tried to sell health insurance for six months before I got so disillusioned with humankind that I had to stop or else there was a serious chance I would be one of those mass shooters you keep reading about. Not to brag or sound arrogant but when you are as smart as I am, it's very hard to understand certain mindsets that are ultimately fatal. When people refuse to accept certain truths, such as the coverage you have in insurance sucks (even with Obamacare which does nothing to fix the whole bankruptcy/spending problem) no matter what your policy is, unless you are very rich or have a great employer. 90% of you out there, if you get sick, and I mean really sick like I have been, your money is going to go poof and possibly send you to the poor house. That is a fact that too many people, including myself, have discovered. Getting better from a major illness is mucho expensive and too many of us out there are either bitching about Obamacare for all the wrong reasons or just sitting back and taking it. And a new Harris poll explains exactly why.


The poll taken recently says that 74% say they believe in God, down from 82% from earlier studies. Now, while I don't follow any specific religion, I do believe in a God as a Prime Mover, not the invisible lunatics that most seem to worship, so this poll seems reasonable. It does not bode well for organized religion which are losing their grip on a better educated public, although figures like Pope Francis are setting a better example than some. From here, it gets weird.

72% believe in miracles, down from 79% in 2005. Again miracles do indeed happen. Whether God has anything to do with it is another matter. 68% believe in Heaven, down from 75%. 68% believe Jesus is the son of God, down from 72%. I still think that whether Jesus was divine or not matters less than the words he spoke which most Christians conveniently ignore. 65% believe in Jesus' Resurrection, down 5%. 64% believe in the soul, down 69% which is especially troubling. If you don't believe in soul and do not fear any sort of punishment for your actions, other than legal ones, chances are you are less likely to be a charitable, honest person and more likely to act like a psycho. This decline could explain a lot about why we have so many demonic individuals running large corporations lately. 58% believe in the devil and hell, down 4 points. 57% believe in the Virgin birth, down three points. None of these are game changers per say and the fact belief in evolution rose 5% to 47, makes me happy as evolution is a fact, not a theory.

However, a whopping 36% believe in creationism which is a shocking amount of people who think something is real which absolutely isn't. It would be like taking a poll and having 36% defend Santa as real. Unbelievable. We also find 42% believe in ghosts, which I would be one of them. 29% believe in astrology, which I am not of them, 26% believe in witches (really?), and 24% believe in reincarnation, which is absolutely possible. The fact that more people believe in creationism than reincarnation is terrible.

Certainty in God has dropped 12% to 54%, from a poll in 2003. That makes me have some hope as uncertainty is better than absolute belief. Nothing is absolute. Read Wittgenstein's On Certainty for more on that.

The biggest non-surprise were the people who were positive God exists. They were blacks(70%), Republicans (65%), older people (62%), Baby Boomers (60%), Southerners (61%), Midwesterners (58%) and those with no college degree(60%), You know, stupid people. What isn't on this list are liberals, young people, Northeasterners and the like. Blacks get the short end of the stick in this poll because while I don't think black people are dumber than white people, their poverty and anti-learning culture puts them at a serious disadvantage. But as I have said numerous times, anyone in the hood who wants to better themselves can if they want to work for it. I have known several people who came from the worst neighborhoods in the country, were raised poor and black, and have overcome that to make themselves great members of society and don't buy into all that "whitey is keeping my down," nonsense.

The dumbest poll is 39% believe God is male and only 1% think female. If you think God has a sex in the first place there is something wrong with you. 31% of you follow my line of reasoning with that, and 10% believe God is both. 19% describe themselves as very religious and 40% say somewhat. 23% have no religious beliefs, a number that has nearly doubled since 2007.

I wish the numbers were better as too many people still believe in nonsense like witches and creationism. Way too many are still too religious, something we need to walk away from. Unless Pope Francis keeps heading toward a new enlightenment in then Church, unlikely even with his good deeds, the Church will continue to hemorrhage people as the young and educated are not flocking to mass. However, without a spiritual leader, a reason to behave and do good deeds, I feel this country will devolve even further. We need a combination of religion and science that propels us into the next century without turning the Earth into a brittle husk. I feel that is asking a lot from people not much more evolved than the monkeys some deny we came from.