Roughly 9 in 10 Americans believe in God or a universal spirit, while fewer than 10% are firm in their belief that there is no God. Eighty-one percent of Americans believe in heaven. At the same time, 7 in 10 profess belief in the Devil and in hell. These updates of Americans’ beliefs were measured in a May 10-13, 2007, Gallup poll survey.
The survey contained two different questions about God, each asked of a random half of the survey’s respondents.
The first split-sample was asked a straightforward question about belief in God as part of a question that asked about five different religious or spiritual entities:
3 out of 10 swear they are married to his sister.