Did the godless Internet skew the Pew?

We're running a (completely unscientific and maybe even meaningless) poll along with our story about faith in California, and we couldn't help notice that the numbers not only don't match the findings in the Pew study, they run counter to them.

At this particular moment -- people keep voting so we can only speak for right now -- of the 19,452 people who have weighed in, 60% say they don't believe in God at all. According to the study, 71% nationwide say they absolutely do believe in God.

Call us skeptical, but we think an e-mail may be making its way through the Godless (and godless) Internet, urging voters to skew the Pew study.

Have you voted yet? Is there a God?

(And btw, that's former Dodger great Orel Hershiser in the photo, clearly -- and famously -- a believer.)

--Veronique de Turenne

Photo: Lori Shepler / Los Angeles Times

Comments

[SB]

Or maybe the godless are more inclined to read the newspaper and therefore vote in your poll, you know, since they're more intelligent.