Just Who Does Go to Hell? August 17, 2006
Posted by Steve in : Weblog, Breaking News, Church , add a commentLast week, MSNBC did a piece on people’s attitudes about hell.
The correspondent stated that there are no more central questions for every single one of us than the questions about belief. Is there a God? Is there life after death, is there a heaven, or hell? His data showed that Americans, as we all know by now, are far more likely than, say, Europeans, to answer those questions in the affirmative. A Harris poll of our attitudes conducted a few years ago found that 94 percent of American adults believe in God, 89 percent in heaven and 73 percent in hell. For professing Christians, those numbers are even higher.
But more interesting were the answers to the question…just exactly who is going to go to hell? Hell is for other people! Fully three-quarters of survey participants felt pretty sure they will be going to heaven when they die, while just 2 percent expected they would wind up in hell. WOW!
MSNBC then asked thier readers to take the following questions — with more than 17,000 answers, here is how people responded:
