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Originally Posted by Walt
Anyone catch The Post's follow-up? I am shocked, SHOCKED, to learn that retarded beliefs aren't limited only to vegans and Republicans.
"Much attention has been paid in recent days to a poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life showing that 18 percent of Americans incorrectly believe that President Obama is a Muslim. But the results of another Pew poll on religion released last December were far more shocking. It turns out that 36 percent of Democrats claim to have communed with the dead, and that 19 percent believe in casting a curse on someone using the "evil eye." Think about that: According Pew, more Democrats believe in the "evil eye" than Americans believe Obama is a Muslim."
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This is of little consequence with regard to this topic. And it should be noted that communing with the dead isn't a far reach from communing with a deity. The U.S. is a relatively religious nation, so it's not a surprise that many believe in an afterlife and spirits. Furthermore, beliefs surrounding the "evil eye" appear even in the Old Testament. Republicans are not spared from these either, where 21% and 12% share the same beliefs, respectively.
Regardless, Islam is a real thing, whereas spirits and evil eyes aren't so much. Even if you account for degrees of error, it appears that many Americans believe that the president is something he's not---and this is something they can find out fairly easily using the Internet or a library. Of course, those who think he's a Muslim may think he's hiding it, which is another thing all together. This brings up the concept of the paranoid Christian.