According to a September 2003 Harris Interactive Nationwide Survey in America about how people view God, 48 percent thought of Him as a spirit that is able to take on human form, 27 percent a spirit power that doesn't take on human form, 10 percent didn't believe in God at all and 9 percent thought of Him as a human being with a body (USA Today, Oct. 24, 2003, Atlantic edition). Although Americans are 10 times as likely as Europeans to attend church on a regular basis, there is still no general consensus about His nature in the United States.

Across the Atlantic, the British are generally much less precise in the way they express their views. In Britain we hear and read of "devout skeptics" as people steadily turn away from organized religion by the thousands. Many of the intelligentsia talk of "a dimension of spirit that transcends the mundane" or "the sense of the numinous within the human spirit." God is often viewed as "the quest for goodness" or some such similar expression (The Times [London], Aug. 25, 2003). The personal God of the Bible seems far from their thinking.

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