<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/opinion/27blow.html?_r=1>
> In June, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life published a
> controversial survey in which 70 percent of Americans said that they
> believed religions other than theirs could lead to eternal life.
>
> This threw evangelicals into a tizzy. After all, the Bible makes it
> clear that heaven is a velvet-roped V.I.P. area reserved for
> Christians. Jesus said so: “I am the way, the truth and the life:
> no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” But the survey suggested
> that Americans just weren’t buying that.
>
> The evangelicals complained that people must not have understood the
> question. The respondents couldn’t actually believe what they were
> saying, could they?
>
> So in August, Pew asked the question again. (They released the
> results last week.) Sixty-five percent of respondents said — again
> — that other religions could lead to eternal life. But this time,
> to clear up any confusion, Pew asked them to specify which
> religions. The respondents essentially said all of them.
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