GALLUP SAYS THAT BLACKS ARE MOST RELIGIOUS GROUP IN U.S.

In what is yet another example of just how easy it is to make any poll say absolutely anything that you want it to say, comes this most recent poll from our friends over at Gallup. Now according to those folks at Gallup, this poll supposedly shows that black Americans can now be safely identified as being the most religious people in the United States. I would suppose, however, that it would depend, at least somewhat, upon how one goes about defining religion. Because the mere fact that you may go to church every Sunday does not make you any more religious than a person who does not. After all, It doesn't take a genius to see that the behavior exhibited by your average black American these days, these very same "religious" people, shows many of them to also be some of the most hate filled individuals that you'd ever bump into anywhere on the entire planet. They seem to have not yet managed to progress past the days of slavery and segregation and remain firmly stuck in a time that, we as a nation, have long since moved beyond. And sadly, that goes for our president as well, who has a rather questionable tendency to reveal his own somewhat racist side if he sees it as somehow being beneficial to his political aspirations. And look at who those individuals are who are looked up to for leadership and spiritual guidance in the black community. Outright bigots like Al "Bull Horn" Sharpton, Jesse "The Adulterer" Jackson as well as the loudmouthed buffoon, and Barry's preacher for 20 years, Rev. Jeremiah "God Damn America" Wright. And these guys are supposed to be Men of God? Personally, I think all three got ordained off the back of a cereal box. Judging them solely by some of the things that they say, none of them strike me as being all that religious. And they are some of the most pathetic hypocrites you'll ever meet. They go out of their way to incite as much racial hatred as possible because it's what they see as a method of increasing their stature within their community. You hear many more racist comments coming from those who are black than you'll hear from anyone who is white.

And like sheep, a majority of the black population, even those you would think could see through clowns like Sharpton and Jackson, fall into lock step behind them, swallowing hook, line and sinker the vile rhetoric spewed by these hatemongers.  Let's face it, the favorite social activity for this segment of our population is to get together as often as possible for a good old fashioned riot and to do a little looting along the way. Any opportunity to pick up a new pair sneakers or a new flat screen should always be taken full advantage of. And they are never the least bit shy about taking advantage of any situation that lends itself to the creation of an incendiary environment that's ripe for their favorite brand of civil disobedience, wholesale death and destruction through their trademark violence. And if they really are such a religious group, would today's black family be in the shambles that we see today, with half of the black kids growing up in American today not even knowing who their father is? And would the majority of our prison population be black? Or, would we have these women out there who are busy pumping out more kids than they can ever hope support without my, the taxpayer's, help? Or, would there be the number of abortions taking place in the black community if they were so religious and human life was so sacred to them? Religious, maybe, the most religious, no I don't think so. These people, maybe not all of them, but certainly the majority of them, walk around with what amounts to a permanent chip on their shoulder. They're practically spoiling for some kind of a fight. And they are the most paranoid and insecure bunch of folks you'll see anywhere, with anything that goes wrong in their life always being the fault of those racist white folks. There is very little, if any, personal responsibility or accountability to be found anywhere in this segment of our population. There is a sense of being owed something that runs pretty deep throughout the entire black community, and in their view they should be on the receiving end of preferential treatment.


In what is supposed to have been some kind of a daily tracking survey, the results of which were released July 1, we're told that Gallup supposedly found that 53 percent of black Americans identify themselves as being “very religious,” with 33 percent saying they were “moderately religious.” That stands in contrast, at least according to this poll, to the 39 percent of white Americans who said they were “very religious” and the 26 percent who said they were “moderately religious.” Only 13 percent of blacks said they were “nonreligious,” versus 34 percent of whites. Hispanic Americans were the second most religious ethnic group, with 45 percent saying they were “very religious,” and 33 percent “moderately religious” -- a total of 78 percent religious. Just 22 percent of Hispanics said they were nonreligious. Asian Americans were far less religious, at least according to Gallup, exhibiting the highest percentage of any group identifying themselves as “nonreligious” -- 29 percent of Asians said they were “very religious,” 32 percent were moderately religious” and 39 percent "nonreligious." This seems like a pretty arbitrary way to determine whether any one group is more or less religious than another group. Or, for that matter, to determine how religious the country as a whole might be. And I'm not sure what it is that Gallup was hoping to show by even conducting such a poll as this. Perhaps that's because if blacks can be made to appear as being more religious than most, then they are somehow to be viewed as being superior to the rest of us. Or, might the purpose behind this poll be to show that because these supposed "more religious than most" people support Democrats in very large numbers, Democrats, by association, can be seen as being deserving, even worthy, of those votes cast by others who see themselves as being very religious. I just see this whole things as being some kind of scam. Do I sound like a conspiracy nut? It's just that in this day and age I have a very difficult time believing anything that I see and even less of what I read. Everyone is trying to play the system in one way or another for their own benefit and therefore are simply not to be trusted.


It's just that I don't think that you can quantify the level of someone's degree of religious faith by simply taking some screwy poll. Religion, like politics, is a deeply personal thing for most people, and I think allot of folks might be a little reluctant in providing such information, accurately, to some idiot taking a poll, be it Gallup or anybody else. But according to Gallup, the maximum margin of error for all samples is plus-or-minus 1 percentage point, with a 95 percent confidence factor. According to Gallup, the three religious groups -- “very religious”/ “moderately religious”/ “nonreligious” -- are defined by a combination of how important respondents say religion is to them and how often they say they attend religious services. The findings are based on Gallup Daily tracking interviews conducted January through May of this year, with a random sample of 145,618 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Among those adults, 115,577 were non-Hispanic whites, 10,704 were Hispanics, 10,174 were non-Hispanic blacks and 2,407 were Asians.