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The title should be 'polling for facts". Most people are convinced that there is a God, more who believe that there is a God conspiracy and some who believe that the unprovable does not exist. Perception reveals miracles, statues in tears, signs, omens, images on toasted cheese, and other out of mind expeiences.
It is time to stop giving credence to hallucinations or irrational unsupported statements promoted for the best of reasons, that the participant has found a community of deviants who accept the madness, and a group in which a very nice living can be made by making ridiculous statements in public.