[at-l] I was kind of surprised by this...

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

At 09:12 PM 8/22/2005 -0500, Shane Steinkamp wrote:
>I was reading this article:
>
>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9024914/site/newsweek/
>
>and looking at the poll results for this question:
>
>In which one of the following situations do you personally feel most
>connected with God or the divine?  * 67176 web responses
>
>  RESPONSES  WEB  NEWSWEEK / Beliefnet
>
>  When you are praying alone or meditating  36%  40%
>  When you are in nature  22%  21%
>  When you are in a house of worship  16%  21%
>  When you are praying with others  5%  6%
>  When you a reading a sacred text  3%  2%
>  None of these/Doesn't apply  16%  6%
>  Don't know  2%  4%
>
>I'm really surprised that the 'nature' answer is that high.

I'm not. I find it significant though that it is above the 'house of 
worship' answer.