CNN's religion blog, entitled "Belief Blog," recently posted an article entitled, "10 things the Belief Blog learned in its first year." Below is the list without the accompanying commentary. You might want to take a look at that commentary, which puts some meat on each lesson learned. The comments on #2 are particularly enlightening and the ones on #3 a little surprising.Here's what Belief Blog learned in its first year:
1. Every big news story has a faith angle.
2. Atheists are the most fervent commenters on matters religious.
3. People are still intensely curious about the Bible, its meaning and its origins.
4. Most Americans are religiously illiterate.
5. It's impossible to understand much of the news without knowing something about religion.
6. Regardless of where they fit on the spectrum, people want others to understand what they believe.
7. Americans still have an uneasy relationship with Islam.
8. God may not prevent natural disasters, but religion is always a big part of the response.
9. Apocalyptic movements come and go.
10. Most Americans don't know that President Barack Obama is a Christian.
