Our 7th and 8th grade RE class did a survey of members during coffee hour. We asked people to check the beliefs below that pertained to them. We allowed the respondents to check as many as they felt fit for them. We got the list of statements from Compass Points by Gaia Brown and Michelle Richards, the curriculum for our class. After people responded (48 people), we classified the statements in the categories shown on the pie graph and determined the percentage of responses in each area.
Almost everyone agreed with the statement that "There are as many ideas about God as there are people", so we used that for the title of our graph instead of including it in our pie graph.
Here are the statements and the way we classified them. We would be interested in finding out what others in our congregation and other UU's on the Internet think about the findings of our survey.
Statements and Classification
Theist-
God cares for us and listens to our prayers.-9
God is present in the relationships among people.-30
Pantheist-
There is a spark of divinity in each of us.-43
God and the Universe are the same- God is in everything and everyone-30
God is inside, around us and with us wherever we are-8
Pagan-
I find God in Nature-43
God is like a loving mother who sustains us and all life-11
Humanist-
God is my conscience calling me to make the world a better place-19
We can use science and reason to make the world a better place-46
Agnostic-
There is no way we can know whether or not there is a God-20
Atheist-
There is no such thing as God, and even the word is meaningless-5
Deist-
God created the universe and left it to run itself.-6
Some Questions We Have:
* Do you think this is a true representation of the diverse beliefs in our congregation?
* Is this representative of UU's in general?
* Would you classify the statements the same way we did or make changes?
* Are there other beliefs that are not represented here?
Please leave your comments.
Thanks,
7th and 8th Grade RE Class
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