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. 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. 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. That's why I give no credence to polls that continually show that about 10% of Americans are atheists. These polls also use phone interviews usually using automatic dialing systems and are thus limited to people who don't have the skills and intelligence to install a telezapper, i. e., they automatic exclude most atheists.
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