Is there anything else that such a monumental amount of people believe in, that isn't true, besides God?

Answer 1

This is according to a 2001 Gallup Poll...The first number is percentage of people who believe, the second is unsure...

psychic/spiritual healing 54, 19
ESP 50, 20
haunted houses 42, 16
demonic possession 41, 16
ghosts/spirits of the dead 38, 17
telepathy 36, 26
extraterrestrials visited Earth in the past 33, 27
clairvoyance and prophecy 32, 23
communication with the dead 28, 26
astrology 28, 18
witches 26, 15
reincarnation 25, 20
channeling 15, 21

Answer 2

Partly it depends on when and where you're talking about.

Other common and false beliefs include that women are a lesser species.

That the "top" of the sky isn't very far away (that was universal until the last century).

The "We" are special, and other peoples less.

That we have seasons because part of the year we're closer to the Earth.

That the way to teach someone something is to tell them.

That people are blank slates.

That parents teach their children language by pointing to things and saying their names.

That the function of language is to represent reality.

That crazy people are possessed by demons.

That coincidences have meaning.

That Eurasia and Africa are the only land masses on Earth.

That most of the surface of Earth is covered by land (not water).

to name a few....

Answer 3

One of them shouldn't be God by the way..........but man.
Lots of people have a ton of faith in the President, Sports Figures, Celebrities, such as OJ Simpson! Musicians, Santa Claus, Ministers, Priests, (even when there on TV asking for your money, or sexually abusing your child), teachers ETC...

Answer 4

Yeah I know one that even more people believe in.... Truth. There is no such thing as honest to God truth. There are always different sides to every story and people always think they are right, etc.

Answer 5

Jehovah's administration had been handed over to Jesus Christ,about 2000years ago.Still people are tied to Jehova, because they do not consider the Book of Genesis and NewTestament! If Jesus has not been crucified, All men and women would have to bring cattles and sheeps to Church! So be more vigilant.

Answer 6

It's a testament to the success of current religions in adopting what works. Christianity for instance continually reinvents itself to stay just ahead of the doubt curve.

The very fact that the religion is christianity is an example of their ability to recreate themselves. Jesus can be seen as the great repackaging. Those things from the OT that were outdated were swept away in the reinvention.

It drew from religions that came before it and has even incorporated scientific discoveries into itself to remain just believable enough to those wanting answers to unanswerable questions. It adopts what it finds impossible to continue denying.

A perfect example of this is the adoption of the notion of ecology which not so long ago it considered utterly antithetical.

You can see this happening right now with evolution. As viciously anti-evolution as some christians seem to be now there is a slowly creeping movement to also fold it into the religion.

They are the distillation of what was successful from previously failed religions and 2000 years of dodging fact and repackaging itself when those facts are undeniable. They have essentially created the bulletproof religion in that it will adopt literally anything its critics can prove.

And at the forefront they have erected a deity that is the evolution of deities in that by design it is unproveable and can be reshaped as anything they choose. God is by design unseeable, unknowable and unfathomable. TAny action event or thing can be ascribed to a god that they themselves created as unprovable.

Answer 7

I would say that truth itself is the largest. Truth that can be proved is subjective to those trying to prove or disprove. Real Truth is beyond cognitive reason and therefor can only be experienced. Once you try to move it from the experience to the understanding and then to the explainable it has been so deluded that it has lost the power it once had. God is beyond thought, that is why there is so much confusion with those who try to describe God, but that does not negate existence just our ability to describe and explain.

Answer 8

I don't think so. Since we proved that the world is spherical, the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth, and stars aren't pin-pricks in the black canvas of night, God is really the last great icon of human ignorance left standing.

Answer 9

Try evolution, humanism, the "goodness" of people global warming, al gore, witch clinton. Yeah lots, but I need to tell you, have a typo in your question, you actually have wrote that you don't believe in God. That cant be the case, only a fool would say such a thing, you do know it is written
"the fool has said in his (her) heart there is no God" Surely you are not a fool are you?

Answer 10

Tooth Fairy

Boogie Monster

Dr. Phil

The Dog Whisperer

George Bush's brain