Religious Attitude Inventory – RAI

God made everything-the stars, the animals, and the flowers.

The gift of immortality has been revealed by prophets and religious teachers.

The church has acted as an obstruction to the development of social justice.

There are many events which cannot be explained except on the basis of divine or supernatural intervention.

The church is a monument to human ignorance.

The idea of God is useless.

God hears and answers one's prayers.

The soul is mere suppositions, having no better standing than a myth.

The universe is merely a machine. Man and nature are creatures of cause and effect. All notions of Deity as intelligent Being or as a 'spiritual force' are fictions, and prayer is a useless superstition.

It is by means of the church that peace and good-will may replace hatred and strife throughout the world.

God created man separate and distinct from the animals.

The church is a harmful institution, breeding narrow-mindedness, fanaticism, and intolerance.

Christ, as the Gospels state, should be regarded as divine, as the human incarnation of God.

There is no evidence in modern science that the natural universe of human destiny is affected by faith or prayer.

The notion of retribution in a future life is due to wishful thinking.

The good done by the church is not worth the money and energy spent on it.

The orderliness of the universe is the result of a divine plan.

The church is a stronghold of much that is unwholesome and dangerous to human welfare. It fosters intolerance, bigotry, and ignorance.

The existence of God is proven because He revealed Himself directly to the prophets described in the Old Testament.

The church is the greatest influence for good government and right living.

God is only a figment of one's imagination.

Man is a creature of faith and to live without faith in some Supreme Power is to suffer a homesickness of the soul.

God will, depending on how we behave on earth, reward or punish us in the world to come.

People who advocate Sunday observance are religious fanatics.

It is simple-minded to picture any God in control of the universe.

The church is the greatest agency for the uplift of the world.

The idea of God is mere superstition.

The world was created in six solar days.

The idea of God is unnecessary in our enlightened age.

God has good reason for everything that happens to us, even though we cannot understand it sometimes.

The soul lives on after the body dies.

The existence of God is shown by the fortunate results through approaching Him in prayer.

The country would be better off if the churches were closed and the ministers were set to some useful work.

The so-called spiritual experience of men cannot be distinguished from the mental and emotional, and thus there can be no transference from this world to a so-called spiritual one.

The first writing of the Bible was done under the guidance of God.

The church is hundreds of years behind the times and can not make a dent on modern life.

Belief in God makes life on earth worthwhile.

God cares whether we repent or not.

Man cannot be honest in his thinking and endorse what the church teaches.

There is no life after death.

Since Christ brought the dead to life, He can give eternal life to all who have faith.

The church represents shallowness, hypocrisy, and prejudice.

There is an infinitely wise, omnipotent creator of the universe, whose protection and favor may be supplicated through worship and prayer.

The paternal and benevolent attitude of the church is quite distasteful to a mature person.

The church deals in platitudes and is afraid to follow the logic of truth.

God protects from harm all those who really trust Him.

Immortality is certain because of Christ's sacrifice for all mankind.

There is a far better way of explaining the working of the world than to assume any God.

It seems absurd for a thinking man to be interested in the church.

The idea of God is the best explanation for our wonderful world.