Most people believe Christ rose from the dead, polls say

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Polls suggest Americans’ belief that Christ was physically raised from the dead has slipped somewhat in recent years but remains strong.

A 2010 Rasmussen Reports survey found that 78 percent of Americans believe Christ was raised from the dead, 10 percent don’t believe it and 11 percent aren’t sure.

Evangelical Christians overwhelmingly believe in the Resurrection — 97 percent — along with 87 percent of Catholics and 86 percent of other Protestants.

Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=298&articleid=20120407_296_0_Nearly446522

I wonder if that holds true for religious believer posters here at DU. I suspect not.

The question for me would be: why is this so important to Christians? Isn't the collection of lessons and teachings from Jesus, the guy from Nazareth, (or somewhere), good enough without all this supernatural miracle story? Why must Jesus have risen from the dead in order for his teachings to be so important ?