Gallup Poll Finds 78 Percent Of Americans Believe
(CBS) CHICAGO Are there or aren't there? In a world that seems to some more and more perilous, a growing number of people believe they can turn to their guardian angel for assistance.
CBS 2's Jon Duncanson reports that what some might call luck, others call divine intervention of an angelic nature.
The evidence says we want to believe that angels do earn their wings. According to a Gallup Poll, 78 percent of Americans believe guardian angels exist.
As three-year-old Addison Schwaller of rural Sheridan fell nine feet through a construction hole, landing face first on a concerete floor.
?She was totally unresponsive. Her eyes were off to the left and fixed,? said her mom, Krisellen Lang. ?Didn?t move at all when you talked to her.?
By the time Addison reached the hospital, doctors found no bruising or even evidence of a fall.
That was strange enough, but Addison, who really knew nothing about angels, told her mom she wasn?t alone during that terrible fall.
?She said, ?My angel said I was too heavy so I had to stay. That I was too heavy for her to carry all the way,?? Krisellen said.
Peggy Gibson of Chicago says when she fell and couldn?t get up, a car drove down her alley. Two men helped her.
?As I turned to see where they were going, the car seemed to have disappeared,? Peg said.
The popular notion of winged guardian angels dates back at least 5,000 years.
Joan Wester Anderson of Prospect Heights has written seven best-selling books of alleged angels encounters. She says there are just too many stories not to believe.
?What we have to do to not believe is to disbelieve all these good people,? Anderson said.
Still, even the Catholic Church is careful ?not to put a whole set of intermediary begins between human beings and God,? said Father Robin Ryan with the Catholic Theological Union.
There are lots of people like Sandra Van Maren, an avowed atheist, who think it?s a all a lot of wishful thinking.
?They?re employing logic to get along in their daily lives, and they're rejecting logic for this thing I believe they want to exist,? said American Atheists? Sandra Van Maren.
Don?t tell that to trucker Michael Harrington of Warrenville. He says he passed out behind the wheel from a knee injury but still mysteriously found he had driven 300 miles.
?I regained consciousness back in Memphis,? he said.
The fact is, there may or may not be angels in America. But in America, it seems there?s an increased desire to believe that a guardian angel is just an emergency away.
?I think we all learned a lot from that day about the fact that we are not alone, even if we think we might be,? Krisellen said.
The Greek philosopher, Plato, spoke of guardian angels. The belief follows the line that each person is assigned a guardian "spirit," which can be called upon in times of trouble.
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