Thanks to the Raving Atheist for alerting me to this mathematical miracle. According to Newsweek, 79% percent of Americans believe 'Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, without a human father.' According to the same poll, 24% of Americans believe 'the story of Christmas is a theological invention written to affirm faith in Jesus Christ' and 38% 'do not believe that [every word of the Bible is literally accurate].'
Of the 100% polled, 79% believe in Jesus' virgin birth. That leaves 21% who do not believe in Jesus' virgin birth. But 24% believe the story of Jesus' virgin birth is an 'invention' and 38% do not believe the Bible is accurate. So somewhere between 3% and 17% of people believe that the story of Jesus' virgin birth is both true and false. This is either a basic flaw in the poll, or an indication of the basic incompatability of religion and reason, or some of both. In the real world, nothing is both true and false (although our knowledge of it can be confused, the thing itself is what it is).
Considering that religion has never solved a single problem of mathematics, never cured a single disease, never built a single home, never predicted a future event, never prevented a single natural disaster, never fed a single hungry mouth, never clothed a single shivering child - while reason does all those things, all day, every day - it is criminal that a single moment or a single penny is spent propping up these ancient superstitions when the real problems of the real world are so pressing and solvable. Religion is an intollerable imposition on the human race.
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