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I don't doubt that the results of this survey are true, but I certainly would not rely solely on this Barna group to present the facts accurately.
Er, either the results are true, or they aren't.
What about the presentation of these true facts do you think is misleading?
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This survey is just too self serving for them. They are in the business (spelled with capital $$'s) of helping churches attract or retain (paying) members so that these results would tend to scare churches into believing their (the Barna group's) services were needed.
Again, can you point out where the flaws are in their analysis?
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Surveys that rely on the results of 1000 respondees to telephone interviews, and that is about all of them, are very suspect. They are far too weighted towards people who are willing, or dumb enough, to answer personal questions from a total stranger over the phone.
When phone surveys are independently verified to judge their accuracy, they are, for elections to give one example, shown to be accurate within a few percentage points.
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That's why I give no credence to polls that continually show that about 10% of Americans are atheists.
Here's a report of a US Census survey of 50,000 people that showed that about 8% of Americans are non-believers.
The thing is, do you think that the people conducting telephone surveys haven't already come up with the issues you have raised as well as others?
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