And the survey says . . .
About 1,300 people answered the question about how often they feel God's love in the 2004 General Social Survey.
Here is what they said:
Many times a day: 21 percent
Every day: 29 percent
Most days: 14 percent
Some days: 10 percent
Once in a while: 11 percent
Never or almost never: 15 percent
That same year, the survey asked the same group a related question: "In general, how close do you feel to God?"
The results:
Not at all close: 11 percent
Somewhat close: 36 percent
Very close: 36 percent
As close as possible: 17 percent
Here is what they said:
Many times a day: 21 percent
Every day: 29 percent
Most days: 14 percent
Some days: 10 percent
Once in a while: 11 percent
Never or almost never: 15 percent
That same year, the survey asked the same group a related question: "In general, how close do you feel to God?"
The results:
Not at all close: 11 percent
Somewhat close: 36 percent
Very close: 36 percent
As close as possible: 17 percent
10 Comments:
What institution was this survey done again?
The General Social Survey, in case you don't know, is the longest running, most substantive survey of American behavior and opinion. It is the single best source of data on societal trends, and has been collecting data since 1972. It is overseen by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center.
There you go, Ruby. Just Google the Chicago National Opinion Research Center and/or the General Social Survey.
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It appears to be fairly evenly split. About 1/2 feel God's love often and are very close or as close as possible. The other 1/2 don't feel it quite so much and aren't as close.
Pew research also has done a lot of polling on religion in America.
You can tell I didn't cheat!
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GOD IN YOUR LIFE
Jan.22, 09
IN TODAY’S NEWS:
“Obama enters the white house amid desperate economic times, and with a SWEEPING agenda for change”, as part of the sweep that now befalls America. Is it God in your life, or Obama as God’s minister (Romans 13:4-6)?
Israel’s triumph in the fall of Babylon (Isaiah 14: 23-27): “I will SWEEP it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of Hosts. The Lord of Hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: That I will break the “Assyrian” in my land (Assiyah, “The World”), and upon my mountains tread them under foot. Then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders (of “Israel”, the truly faithful to ALL of His Word: FLDS, NOT the “synagogue of Satan” that inhabits Palestine today, as the Lord saith: Rev.2:9).
“This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. For the Lord of Hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? His hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back”?
So, is it our good friend Obama (Baurakel: God has blessed), or is it God doing it? (Romans 13:4-6): “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is NO power but of God. The powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God. And they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil…He is the minister of God to thee for good. If thou do that which is evil, BE AFRAID; for he beareth not the sword in vain: He is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil”
What is evil? That which is not good, or that which is not of the father or of fatherhood (Matt.19:17), “forbidding (the FLDS) to marry in these latter days”: “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times, some shall depart from the faith (as all the world know the larger LDS Church did in 1890, as a whore, to get gain, teaching for doctrines the laws or commandments of men: Matt.15:9), giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron (Maal: Coverups, or secret combinations: BOM Mormon 8:27), forbidding to marry” (I Tim.4:1-3).
The kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever (Rev.11:15). “Babylon is fallen, is fallen (Rev.14:8)…..Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen” (16:19, 18:2).
These are the final moments for America, because of her acquiescence to the persecutions of the saints, and the imprisonment and martyrdom of her prophets, and of her children. Innocent blood flows from your hands, even now. Therefore, the Lord’s wrath hath come:
“And verily I say unto you, that they who go forth bearing these tidings unto the inhabitants of the earth, to them is power given to seal both on earth and in heaven, the unbelieving and rebellious. Yea, verily, to seal them up unto the day when the wrath of God shall be poured out upon the wicked without measure…The anger of the Lord is kindled, and His sword is bathed in heaven, and it shall fall upon the inhabitants of the earth…They who will not hear the voice of the Lord, neither the voice of His servants, neither give heed to the words of the prophets and apostles, shall be cut of (D&C 1:8-14)…The land of America shall be swept clean of her inhabitants, as promised, that Christ may establish the cities and temples and peoples of God, after the design of heaven, even Zion’s plat as given by the Prophet Joseph, and initiated in these final moments of earth’s telestial glory by the Lord, through the Prophet Warren.
Street
Here is God’s love to me:
NICE TETS (Concealed Good)
As in the “Tet Offensive”
SLTRIB Plural Life-Jan.25, 2009
Part I
I will do an article on Nice Tets, because this is how I survived for hundreds of days when I was borned. I had some nice tits or tets to nourish me and to entertain me, a concealed goodness. How can that be vulgar? Only to the vulgar is it vulgar, thus revealing their criminal vulgarity to all the world. The Prophet and I were born sick, four-years apart, because the Lord had a purpose in giving us His mark and image and impression upon our souls from the very beginning. So when I was borned or bored, that’s what nourished and entertained me. It was so yummy that I grew into a man, and waalah, here I be (I know, I’m so hell-arious, that you could just SHI……….ver).
Is any of that vulgar? All will agree that it is not vulgar, but rather good and wholesome. Same with our other parts and passions. So how is everybody’s Rich-ard, nicknamed Dick? It is the richness vs the Hebrew Dak, which means “sickness, injury, affliction, and oppression”. It is the dick or dak (hickory-dickary-doc, that little mouse) that afflicts and oppresses the souls of men and women in this world. So overcoming that from the very beginning of life is a great gift of God, that you might then partake of His manah, the bread of life, the Redeemer of Souls.
Is that vulgar? Quite the opposite, all will agree. It is only vulgar to the vulgar, for their very bodies are vulgar to them, and to the Lord, since their temples or bodies have been defiled by sexual relations. Sex or six is “Shesh”: “Beyond the five fingers of the hand, an extra appendage. Deformed, confused” (end-quote). Do you see it? This is what sex does to your form and ability and humanity, turning you into a beast (animal nature vs human nature, or divine nature, the highest of all).
Talk about vulgarity! Do you have sexual relations with any woman, or with your wife? Sexual desire (or lust) is one of the greatest sins or crimes that separates you from both heaven and earth, and casts you into hell, saith the Lord, giving you “no place among the people” (Rev.20:11). “Whoso looketh upon a woman in lust (in sexual desire), has committed adultery” (Matt.5:28). “These are they who are liars, sorcerers, adulterers, and whoremongers, and whosoever loves and makes a lie. These are they who suffer the wrath of God on the earth. These are they who suffer the vengeance of eternal fire. These are they who are cast down to hell” D&C 76:103-6).
Talk about vulgarity! Are the gentiles and modern Israel of today sweet and pure, and partaking of the tit or tet, the concealed good of the Lord, ALL OF HIS WORD? To the FLDS faithful, any who remain, our bodies are temples of God, kept sweet, pure, and holy for the literal seed of Abraham or modern Israel, with the tribes that are still scattered. The people in Palestine today are NOT ISRAEL. The Lord shows us who they are, “The synagogue of Satan” (Rev.2:9, 3:9). Is not Palestine today a rather thorny and wrathful situation? “Do men gather grapes of thorns”, or of wrath? (Matt.7:16). True Israel is still scattered, and will remain so until Christ comes, “and to Him shall the gathering of the people be” (Gen.49:10). They can’t gather to Him, if He is not yet here to gather to, now can they?
There are four years between the Prophet and I, and between now and the beginning of the end. In golf, fore means danger in the hazards of the fairway of life, which the two of us have inherited, but we make it to the meadow. “Four” is Arba. Permute it: Abra, as in Abracadabra, the magic and the pure seed of Abra-ham, as “gold tried in the fire seven times” (Zech.13:9: M-K). “Come with gold and silver to help the Lord’s people”. The Greek is Arete: Manliness, valour, excellence, praise, and virtue, NOT VULGAR. So these are the years and attributes between two who are healed. Nothing in existence is ever vulgar, except to the vulgar, that being their nature. Therefore that is what they respond to, thus exposing their own violence, immorality, and vulgarity to the whole world.
SEE PART II
NICE TETS (Concealed Good)
As in the “Tet Offensive”
SLTRIB Plural Life-Jan.25, 2009
Part II
The Lord takes the least of men, and puts them first: “The last shall be first, and the first shall be last” (Matt.19:30). If you have seen a likeness of the ancient Hindu Gods, they have four arms (ten fingers of Assiyah, and ten of Yetzirah, a lifting up into heaven). Two men is four arms, and a lifting up, and the political situation today is helping to bring that about. Four in Hebrew is “Nagar” (or Nigger): “To flow down from heaven, to stand, to mount up, to offer ourselves up, and to overtake” (Warren Jeffs: Mountain Outfitter, whom you consider as darkness). For the great day of His wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand”? (Rev.6:17), for “God has blessed” (Barak-el).
The Lord is taking the least of the lineage of Noah (which is Ham, and the seed of Cain), and is taking the Prophets, those considered the least among men, to vex the nations. Both Jew and Gentile are the sinners behind closed doors, and few are left to serve the Lord. Many consider them as dark, without light. But the black man is my brother, and God Himself fills the cosmic state of blackness, having fallen unto a dark world as Adam, our God: Keter (white), Chokmah (Gray-matter), Binah (Black, or Life Form).
In heaven, they are the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Enoch, Jesus, and Michael), and the basis of all colors of creation and of mankind. But to us upon the earth, Michael is the Father of all mankind, in heaven and earth. One Father of all mankind, and millions of mothers to bear His children. So all the earth is polygamist. Enoch is the Holy Spirit, and Joseph Smith the fourth member. There are four to rule over the four quarters of the earth.
“Darkness covers the earth, and gross darkness the minds of the people, but the Lord shall arise and His glory is seen” (Isaiah 60:2). All things are swallowed up in the Lord, even as a black hole swallows up all of creation in their time, as a tit or tet to swallow all that is good, and conceal them in the oneness of the Spirit. This is the cosmic “Tet Offensive”. In 1970, about 12 of us FLDS boys went to Fort Lewis, Washington, to prepare for the battle. After we gathered together for a group photo, we went to war. Seven of us were among the last to leave Vietnam four years after the Tet Offensive, to help America lose the war, for God had a purpose in sending His Priesthood to Vietnam.
We survived the tit or the tet, the dangers of the kolvin fore along the fair way. We survive the final assaults of society, because the Lord conceals us in His goodness, in the ministry of His Prophet, and of His earthly ministers of government (Romans 13:4-6), to this day. I dreamed a dream a week or two ago. I was traveling with Uncle Warren and a few of the Elders, and the Prophet greeted me, and said: “I want you to know that I accept every word that you have spoken”. Then he sealed me with a great kiss.
If this was only the imaginations of my dream, so be it. It has strengthened me greatly, that I might survive and go up with him into eternity, and dwell with him forever and ever, which is my prayer in Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Street
Yes, God is very good.
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Street
I have noticed that the "closer" people get to God the more they sound like Street.
I don't know about you guys, but I'll take Thomas Jefferson over Ted Haggard every time.
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