Christianity Today: Atheism is the only rational outlook.

Actually, that divorce poll was there before.But I agree that they didn't handle it right. Faced with an apparently compromised poll, shutting it down seems about the only thing that they could have done. However, they need to have posted a statement to that effect. Whether or not their intent was to do a cover-up, their actions certainly do look like a cover-up.----------------
Authentic Chinese Proverb (told to be by an authentic Chinese co-worker):
Do not tie your shoes in a melon patch.Explanation:
You're walking through somebody else's melon patch. If you reach down to tie your shoe, it would look to somebody else like you're reaching down to pick one of the melons to steal it. Your true intentions mean nothing compared to others' perception.Translation:
Avoid any and all appearance of misconduct.Edited by dwise1, : Word choice.

Read on through the thread.After about 94% of the responses agreed that atheism is the only rational outlook, they pulled the poll off the page. With no announcement that they had done it.The divorce poll was there before along with the atheism poll. I believe that it was the previous poll.

There was an excellent article on that very subject that was posted on our church bulletin board for a long time. I sure wish I had run a xerox of it before it was taken down (I asked, but nobody in the office could find it).Most people's ideas of God were formed when they were children and, as they matured, they failed to go back and revised those ideas. So most people have immature and childish ideas and beliefs about God. "God as Santa Claus" or "God as Cop" or "God as Big Brother" (as in "1984") or "God as Dutch Uncle".Since "sound bites" are being thrown around here, I'll offer one that's most commonly associated with our church:
"To question is the answer."We need to constantly question our beliefs and our understandings. Because we are human, most of our beliefs and our understanding of things, including of our beliefs, are mistaken. Only by questioning what we think we know and understand can we detect when we're mistaken. By refusing or neglecting to question anything, we run the certain risk of holding blindly to childish beliefs which are certainly wrong.