5 Percent of Religious Americans Routinely Try to Fool God

Speaking of phone surveys, surely a survey conducted by LifeWay, a Christian retailer based in Nashville, TN, should be one that we can rely on. So what was LifeWay curious about? Prayer. In particular: how often you pray; what you pray for; and whether your prayers are answered. The chart on the right, perhaps one of my all time favorites, shows what people said they prayed for. Some of these are unexceptionable. Praying for your enemies is supposedly a Christian sort of thing to do (assuming y...