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"The Gallup Organization, under contract to Baylor's Institute for  Studies of Religion, asked American adults a series of questions to  gauge credulity. Do dreams foretell the future? Did ancient advanced  civilizations such as Atlantis exist? Can places be haunted? Is it  possible to communicate with the dead? Will creatures like Bigfoot and  the Loch Ness Monster someday be discovered by science? The answers were added up to create an index of belief in occult and  the paranormal. While 31% of people who never worship expressed strong  belief in these things, only 8% of people who attend a house of worship  more than once a week did."

 

" Even among Christians, there were disparities. While 36% of those  belonging to the United Church of Christ, Sen. Barack Obama's former  denomination, expressed strong beliefs in the paranormal, only 14% of  those belonging to the Assemblies of God, Sarah Palin's former  denomination, did. In fact, the more traditional and evangelical the  respondent, the less likely he was to believe in, for instance, the  possibility of communicating with people who are dead."