Keeping score: One for The One
It’s funny when you read a study that confirms what you already know. A recent study by AP-NORC (Associated Press - National Opinion Research Center, located at the University of Chicago) of adults1 says that close to 90% of the people surveyed “have little or no trust in religious or spiritual leaders and 75% have hardly any confidence in organized religion in general”.
However, we are comfortable with being ‘spiritual’ as long as it’s separate from being religious. In the survey, “68% cite their dislike of organized religion as an important reason for why they don’t consider themselves religious”.
This is where we find ourselves. And it’s not as if helpful books haven’t been written on the subject2 but not much has changed in all these years since I’ve felt that the Judaism I grew up with isn’t working for me. I wrote about these issues many years before in blogs about the Jewish community.
But, get this:
More than 4 in 10 adults with no religious affiliation believe in God or a high power, and two-thirds agree there are some things that can’t be explained by science or natural cause.
Score One for The One.
That which we can’t explain….we somehow know on a deeper level. It’s just that there’s too much noise in our everyday lives, and we need to be coaxed out of our grind and into a new and different kind of perception.
It can happen.
a study conducted in May with over 1,600 adults ages 18+ nationwide
see Ron Wolfson, Relational Judaism; Arthur Green, Radical Judaism.