The broad acceptance is what fascinates San Francisco-based witch and author Devin Hunter: Angels show up independently in different religions and traditions, making them part of the fabric that unites humanity.Īngels do interact with humans though, said Grogger, but what “that looks like we’re not 100% sure.” They worship God who created this angelic legion of unknown numbers, he said, adding that evangelicals often attribute the demonic forces in the world to the angels who fell from heaven when the devil rebelled. And of those angel-believing religiously unaffiliated, that includes 2% of atheists, 25% of agnostics and 50% of those identified as “nothing in particular.” adults who say they believe in angels includes 84% of those with a religious affiliation - 94% of evangelical Protestants, 81% of mainline Protestants and 82% of Catholics - and 33% of those without one. Talk of angels, Garrett said, is often also about something else, like the ways God interacts with the world and other hard-to-articulate ideas. “You can have any one of a number of quite different worldviews in terms of your understanding of how the cosmos is arranged, whether there’s spirit beings, whether there’s life after death, whether there’s a God … and still find a place for angels in that worldview.” “They’re very malleable,” Garrett said of angels. remains a faith-filled country even as more Americans reject organized religion.īut if the devil is in the details, so are people’s understandings of angels. It tracks with historical surveys, she said, adding that the U.S. The widespread acceptance of angels shown in the AP-NORC poll makes sense to Susan Garrett, an angel expert and New Testament professor at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Kentucky. adults believe in the devil or Satan (56%), astrology (34%), reincarnation (34%), and that physical things can have spiritual energies, such as plants, rivers or crystals (42%). Comparably, worshipping Jesus is far more involved when Grogger preaches about angels it is with the context that they are part of God’s kingdom.Īmerican’s belief in angels (69%) is about on par with belief in heaven and the power of prayer, but bested by belief in God or a higher power (79%). They are familiar, regularly showing up in pop culture as well as in the Bible. People turn to angels for comfort, he said.
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