79% Believe Jesus Christ Rose from the Dead

[From Friday]

As Christians gather to celebrate Easter this Sunday, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 88% of adults nationwide think the person known to history as Jesus Christ actually walked the earth 2,000 years ago. That’s up five points from a year ago. Today, 5% disagree and 7% are not sure.

Eighty-two percent (82%) also believe that Jesus Christ was the son of God who came to Earth and died for our sins. Another 10% think otherwise and 8% aren’t sure.

Nearly as many, 79% believe the central claim of the Christian faith--that Jesus Christ rose from the dead. Only 10% say they do not believe the first Easter resurrection really happened, while 11% are not sure.

[My point {in posting}? While I myself am not of the faithful, I have become convinced that this nation, past and hopefully future, owes its success in large part to the influence of the Judaeo-Christian values on which it was based. Secondly I believe the liberal elite, although a small minority {as these numbers suggest} are using their control of the media to wage a ceaseless assault on anything-and-everything religious, part of which is the portrayal of the faithful as some fringe minority.

As Reagan famously said of the left, their problem is that 'so much of what they 'know', just isn't so'.

Contrary to Newsweek's recent The End of Christian America cover piece, this remains a overwhelmingly religious nation which is, overall, to our collective benefit.]

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