About 1 in 4 Americans Believe Satan is Real
About a quarter of Americans have a strong belief that Satan is real, and Mormons are most likely to accept that he is more than a mere symbol of evil, Barna Research Group reports.
Researchers found that 27% of those polled strongly believe that Satan is real. Fifty-nine percent of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe Satan is real, while about one-fifth of Catholics, Episcopalians and Methodists think so.
The survey is the result of telephone interviews with 6,038 randomly selected adults between January 2000 and June 2001. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
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