I’m afraid of Americans

I saw a link to an article on Time.com which states that according to a study by the Baylor University Institute for Studies of Religion

Guardian Angels Are Here, Say Most Americans

This scares the shit out of me. In a beautiful time such as ours, where we have the technological tools, education, and access to a world of information via the internet people still believe in guardian angels. I guess this helps explain why people think George W. Bush was a good candidate for president, and why people think the Large Hadron Collider was going to destroy the world.

This makes me question if people are superstitious, looking for something fantastic to believe to help liven up their boring lives, or just plain ignorant of reality. I struggle to understand why so many people believe in something that is so obviously not real. Maybe a lot of people are taking large doses of psilocybin mushrooms or LSD.

Tags: Religion

1 Comment to I’m afraid of Americans

1. I’d like to see the context of the question. Also, I know some people refer to other people that help them as “guardian angels” and there are in fact groups that help people that use the name “Guardian Angel”*. I’ve heard the phrase used interchangeably with “Good Samaritan”. I think that some of the positive responders were not literally referring to a super-natural phenomenon. This data is gray at best.
   *link:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Angels
John Collins on September 21st, 2008

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