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[[Image:2384975035_230a0eac30.jpg‎‎|thumb|right|170px|The [[Wall Street Journal]] reported that adherents of liberal Protestant denominations are more likely to be superstitious than evangelical Christians.<ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178219865054585.html</ref>]]

[[Image:2384975035_230a0eac30.jpg‎‎|thumb|right|170px|The [[Wall Street Journal]] reported that adherents of liberal Protestant denominations are more likely to be superstitious than evangelical Christians.<ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178219865054585.html</ref>]]

In September of 2008, the [[Wall Street Journal]] reported:

In September 2008, the [[Wall Street Journal]] reported:

{{cquote|The reality is that the [[New Atheism|New Atheist]] campaign, by discouraging [[religion]], won't create a new group of intelligent, skeptical, enlightened beings. Far from it: It might actually encourage new levels of mass [[superstition]]. And that's not a conclusion to take on faith -- it's what the empirical data tell us.

{{cquote|The reality is that the [[New Atheism|New Atheist]] campaign, by discouraging [[religion]], won't create a new group of intelligent, skeptical, enlightened beings. Far from it: It might actually encourage new levels of mass [[superstition]]. And that's not a conclusion to take on faith -- it's what the empirical data tell us.

"What Americans Really Believe," a comprehensive new study released by Baylor University yesterday, shows that [[Conservative Christianity|traditional Christian religion]] greatly decreases belief in everything from the efficacy of palm readers to the usefulness of [[astrology]]. It also shows that the irreligious and the members of more [[Liberal Christianity|liberal Protestant denominations]], far from being resistant to superstition, tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in [[pseudoscience]] than [[Evangelical Christians|evangelical Christians]].<ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178219865054585.html</ref>}}

"What Americans Really Believe," a comprehensive new study released by Baylor University yesterday, shows that [[Conservative Christianity|traditional Christian religion]] greatly decreases belief in everything from the efficacy of palm readers to the usefulness of [[astrology]]. It also shows that the irreligious and the members of more [[Liberal Christianity|liberal Protestant denominations]], far from being resistant to superstition, tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in [[pseudoscience]] than [[evangelical Christians]].<ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178219865054585.html</ref>}}

== See also ==

== See also ==

[[Category: Atheism]]

[[Category:Atheism]]

[[Category: Agnosticism]]

[[Category:Agnosticism]]