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POLL: Do you believe in the devil?

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Gustave Doré illustrating Canto XXXIV of Divine Comedy, Inferno, by Dante Alighieri.

On Tuesday blogger Eric Blauer wrote, “Are you a Bible-believing babbler?” in which he asked readers if they believed in the devil.

He referenced a recent poll where 57 percent of participants said they believed in the existence of the devil. The poll also revealed that 51 percent of participants said they believed someone could be possessed by the devil or an evil spirit and 46 percent believe in the power of exorcism.

Where do you stand on this issue. Do you believe in the devil? Feel free to leave comments below.

Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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Liv Larson Andrews
10 years ago

Though Martin Luther threw his ink blotter and farted at the devil, I have to say I don’t believe in a personified, condensed evil being like that. I affirm that Satan, or The Accuser shows up in scripture. And I have wished I could fight against concrete evil like that. But a more abiding truth, one reflected in Lutheran theology, is that evil and sin and brokenness reside in all of us.

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