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Stats on People's View on the Devil

A recent poll (September 2013) that surveyed 1,000 U.S. adults showed the following stats about what Americans think of the Devil:

  • 57 percent of people believe in the existence of the Devil, while 28 percent deny the Devil's existence. (But in a different survey, 40 percent of Millennials said Satan is "not a real being but just a symbol of evil.")
  • 51 percent of respondents believe that someone can be possessed by an evil spirit; 28 percent disagree.
  • 46 percent believe in the power of exorcism, 19 percent don't, and 36 percent aren't sure.

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