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Indy Coug · 10-01-2007, 12:47 PM

http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?P...rnaUpdateID=93

MikeWaters · 10-01-2007, 12:56 PM

What is the margin of error. According to what I see there, Mormons could actually be 4th.

Sleeping in EQ · 10-01-2007, 02:00 PM

Mormons reading the Bible is always good news. I wonder if the data is skewed because we're studying the NT this year. Regardless, it's a stat of which I wholly approve.

Something else from that survey that I noticed is something that a Catholic friend of mine has been railing on for years. Attendance at Mass is actually up in the last few years, and probably in reaction to the Priest scandals (so he says, and I've heard other Catholics say similar things). Some Catholics feel as though their church needs them and have increased their activity. I'll also add that, according to this survey, Catholics attend services about as often as Protestants do. (And in this survey they actually attend more often than Episcopalians, Adventists, and Lutherans).

I wish the margin of error info was available...

Lost Student · 10-01-2007, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Barna Article

Barna pointed out that Mormons are more likely to read the Bible during a week than are Protestants - even though most Mormons do not believe that the Bible is the authoritative Word of God.

This sentence is a little misleading. People could read it and assume that we put no stock in the bible at all.

jay santos · 10-01-2007, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

Mormons reading the Bible is always good news. I wonder if the data is skewed because we're studying the NT this year. Regardless, it's a stat of which I wholly approve.

Something else from that survey that I noticed is something that a Catholic friend of mine has been railing on for years. Attendance at Mass is actually up in the last few years, and probably in reaction to the Priest scandals (so he says, and I've heard other Catholics say similar things). Some Catholics feel as though their church needs them and have increased their activity. I'll also add that, according to this survey, Catholics attend services about as often as Protestants do. (And in this survey they actually attend more often than Episcopalians, Adventists, and Lutherans).

I wish the margin of error info was available...

I was thinking the same thing about Sunday School, but the date on that is six years old. I wish we would study New Testament more than once every four years. I've enjoyed Gospel Doctrine this year more than ever.

BlueK · 10-01-2007, 06:03 PM

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It is. It said +- 2% at the 95% confidence interval. It's in the "survey methodology" section.

il Padrino Ute · 10-02-2007, 01:41 AM

Calling Aaron!

What are your thoughts on this - other than obviously distorted in our favor?

Frank Ryan · 10-02-2007, 03:01 AM

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Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

Calling Aaron!

What are your thoughts on this - other than obviously distorted in our favor?

he's too busy being sad because his stellar review of "September Dawn" wasn't shared by most movie critics

il Padrino Ute · 10-02-2007, 03:31 AM

Could very well be. LOL!

10-01-2007, 12:47 PM	#1
Indy Coug Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Between Iraq and a hard place Posts: 7,569	Mormons at Top in Bible Reading Amongst Christian Faiths http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?P...rnaUpdateID=93

10-01-2007, 02:00 PM	#3
Sleeping in EQ Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The People's Republic of Monsanto Posts: 3,085	Mormons reading the Bible is always good news. I wonder if the data is skewed because we're studying the NT this year. Regardless, it's a stat of which I wholly approve. Something else from that survey that I noticed is something that a Catholic friend of mine has been railing on for years. Attendance at Mass is actually up in the last few years, and probably in reaction to the Priest scandals (so he says, and I've heard other Catholics say similar things). Some Catholics feel as though their church needs them and have increased their activity. I'll also add that, according to this survey, Catholics attend services about as often as Protestants do. (And in this survey they actually attend more often than Episcopalians, Adventists, and Lutherans). I wish the margin of error info was available... __________________ "Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV) We all trust our own unorthodoxies.

10-01-2007, 06:03 PM	#6
BlueK Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 2,368	[QUOTE= I wish the margin of error info was available...[/QUOTE] It is. It said +- 2% at the 95% confidence interval. It's in the "survey methodology" section. Last edited by BlueK; 10-01-2007 at 06:10 PM.

10-02-2007, 01:41 AM	#7
il Padrino Ute Board Pinhead Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the basement of my house, Murray, Utah. Posts: 15,941	Calling Aaron! What are your thoughts on this - other than obviously distorted in our favor? __________________ "The beauty of baseball is not having to explain it." - Chuck Shriver "This is now the joke that stupid people laugh at." - Christopher Hitchens on IQ jokes about GWB.

10-02-2007, 03:31 AM	#9
il Padrino Ute Board Pinhead Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the basement of my house, Murray, Utah. Posts: 15,941	Could very well be. LOL! __________________ "The beauty of baseball is not having to explain it." - Chuck Shriver "This is now the joke that stupid people laugh at." - Christopher Hitchens on IQ jokes about GWB.

10-01-2007, 12:56 PM	#2
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	What is the margin of error. According to what I see there, Mormons could actually be 4th.