Monsters, demons and gods: Why do we believe? (Part II)

Monsters today are available to everyone, the beliefs that people have for them are stronger than ever.

Why do we believe in monsters, demons and gods?

Is it related to beliefs?

Sometimes the belief in the curse spread with faith , as was the case in 2005 when the famous Protestant missionary John Hagee (his claim was very charismatic and received by the John general candidate). McCain admitted) said that Hurricane Katrina occurred because God resented the sexy parade scheduled to take place on Monday on the day of the storm.

Hagee repeated his belief in 2006: ' I believe New Orleans has angered God, so they have to suffer God's punishment for that'.

This may make people believe that beliefs and strange beliefs are related.

But in a 2004 survey, Baylor University researchers found the opposite.

Researcher Rod Stark - said: 'Belief in strange things has nothing to do with religious beliefs'.

Another study conducted with 391 college students in the United States conducted in 2000 found that participants who did not believe in the Protestant faith mostly believed in reincarnation, the connection with the dead, UFO, telepathy, prophet, ecstasy or cure. People who believe in Protestantism tend to store the lowest bizarre information. Wheaton University researchers write: ' Research reflects in part the views of Christians who value biblical punishments for extraordinary activities' .

Cronk psychologist also conducted a small survey with 80 university students but did not discover any connection between belief and mysterious beliefs.

But a study done in 2002 in Canada found a link between religious beliefs and mystical beliefs. Cronk discovered that among many other answers, Canadians do not have an American-like belief system.

Cronk said: 'I guess that belief is related to how you are nurtured, but less related to genetics. People with high genetic sensitivity to 'faith-based knowledge' may have strong beliefs or will have faith in the occult depending on how they are nurtured. People who are less sensitive to the above beliefs may still have strong beliefs if they grow up in a religious family '.

Belief and mystery

Mencken - Baylor University sociologist - thinks that sacrifices and holy signs (to prevent thoughts from entering the family's rules) have helped the faith stay away from mysteries. He has two articles to be published based on a national scale study involving 1700 people.

The first article will be published in Sociology of Religion in 2009 revealed:

' Among those who are Christian, regular churchgoers (in contact with the holy sign and sacrifices in the congregation) very little believe in the occult. In contrast, Christians who do not regularly go to church (about 1 to 2 times a year) tend to believe in the highest mysteries. '

For the third group, he called naturalists , there was no supernatural view, no Christianity or belief in paranormal things.

Another article that will be published in December in the Review of Religious Research shows that churchgoers ' tend to see horoscopes, get spiritual opinions, or buy denominational items that believe things. the least mystical '. 'However, among Christians who do not go to church, the proportion of those who carry these phenomena is much higher.'

Be educated to believe

However, shaping a challenging, believing Bigfoot person is like defining a scientific method of spirituality.

Stark said: 'Surprisingly, people who believe in mysteries are not related to education. Ph.D is like abandoned characters in school to believe in Bigfoot, demonic Loch Ness monster, etc. '.

The study was conducted with university students in 2006 by Bryan Farga of Oklahoma City University with Gary Steward Jr. of central Oklahoma University brought the same conclusion. Belief in mysteries - from horoscopes to dead people - increased at university level, from 23% for first year students to 31% for next year students and 34 % of graduate students.

Bader - a Baylor sociologist - and his collaborators collaborated with Gallup to conduct a national survey with the participation of 1721 people in 2005. Their survey had a number. Nearly 30% of attendees believe that it can affect the natural world through thought alone. About 30% of people are not sure about this view. Over 20% said they could communicate with the dead. Nearly 40% believe that the house is haunted.

When asked ' whether there will be a day when science will discover creatures like Bigfoot and Loch Ness lake monster' , 18.8% agreed while 25.9% were unsure.

In a remote village in the Himalayas, the belief in Bigfoot's relatives is the Himalayan snowman for some people is an expression of ignorance.

The means of mass media are insane

Exaggerated advertising news about the mysteries of today, whether on television or on the Internet, spreads myths and folklore more cleverly than any other teller what story Myths and disguised beliefs into news and events, satisfying thirst 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for those who are easily shaken.

Scientists are faced with the utopian task: proving something that doesn't exist . We can prove the stone exists. But we cannot prove that Bigfoot or demons or gods don't exist. Those who provide items with Bigfoot pictures or spirituality make money know this very well.

Cronk points out: 'A lot of people have mystical abilities that assert their abilities only occasionally develop, or the power of not being inspired if someone does not believe in the room'.

In Bigfoot's DNA test, who proposed Tom Biscardi (he recently produced a film about Bigfoot, he was also interested in curious journalistic news) who cleverly dodged the bullet made booming myths by claiming that DNA samples were broken.

Money even promotes the law in a different way.

About the discovery of the chupacabra in Cuero, Texas, Zavesky - DeWitt county police chief said: ' It's interesting. We still don't know what it is. '

Of course, his county, especially the town of Cuero, was named for the world 'Chupacabra Capital' while gaining a lot of profits from tourists visiting the 'monster'.

While the police chief was very worried about whether or not the goat's blood sucker was hiding in town, Zavesky never rushed to shoot the monster and extinguished the myth. He said: ' It gives us people's attention. We are not ready to end this. '