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What do Americans believe about angels, demons, and the supernatural? That was a question the American Bible Society (ABS) recently asked US citizens, and it yielded some fascinating results.<\/p>\n
Listen to the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. John Plake, editor-in-chief of the State of the Bible series and chief innovation officer at ABS, told CBN News that a majority of Americans believe in spiritual beings.<\/p>\n \u201cWe found that two-thirds of Americans, 64%, actually believe that there are spiritual beings that exist beyond the natural world,\u201d Plake said. \u201cI don\u2019t know that that\u2019s particularly surprising unless you listen to people who are really naturalistic or really scientistic in their worldview.\u201d<\/p>\n For most Americans, though, Plake said they embrace a simple mantra: \u201cI think there\u2019s something more out there.\u201d This is the issue at the heart of CBN\u2019s \u201cInvestigating the Supernatural\u201d film series. The first movie, \u201cInvestigating the Supernatural: Miracles,\u201d deals with miraculous healing, and the second film \u2014 \u201cInvestigating the Supernatural: Angels and Demons,\u201d which was released in March \u2014 explores the reality of angels and demons.<\/p>\n The ABS research explores these topics, among others.<\/p>\n One of the other interesting belief factors surrounds Americans\u2019 opinions on God, heaven, angels and hell. As it turns out, citizens are more likely to believe in God, heaven and positive elements than they are hell and more difficult spiritual sentiments.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople want to believe \u2026 if there is a supernatural world \u2026 that it\u2019s a benevolent supernatural world, and so they tend to believe in God, heaven, and angels to a higher degree than they would affirm a belief in Satan, hell, and demons,\u201d Plake said. \u201cAnd so you kind of get these categories. The differences aren\u2019t huge, but they are significant and noticeable.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cSo, for instance, 68% of Americans believe in God, whereas 55% believe in Satan; 62% believe in heaven. Only 53% believe in hell.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, 64% believe in angels while just 51% believe in demons.<\/p>\n \u201cThe percentage of Americans who say, \u2018Nope, don\u2019t believe in it at all,\u2019 is actually quite small,\u201d Plake said. \u201cLess than a fifth of Americans, in most cases, don\u2019t believe in the supernatural.\u201d<\/p>\n The researcher also dove into the \u201cnones\u201d \u2014 those Americans who are atheist, agnostic, or simply have no religious affiliation. There\u2019s even a profound amount of openness and belief among these individuals.<\/p>\n \u201cThirty-six percent of them agree that there are spiritual beings that exist beyond the natural world,\u201d Plake said. \u201cAnd these are people who have no religious affiliation at all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What do Americans believe about angels, demons, and the supernatural? That was a question the American Bible Society (ABS) recently asked US citizens, and it yielded some fascinating results. Listen to the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d\u00a0 Dr. John Plake, editor-in-chief of the State of the Bible series and chief innovation officer at ABS, told CBN News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[972,61,534,5225],"class_list":["post-30200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jesus","tag-americans","tag-angels","tag-demons","tag-supernatural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}