Americans are even less certain about God's sex. Only 1 percent thought God was a woman, while the remainder weren't sure. In survey after survey, overwhelming majorities say they believe in God. Most Americans firmly believe in God. Throughout the 1990s, the National Opinion Research Center's authoritative General Social Survey asked people about their belief in God.
Women are far more likely to be True Believers than men.
What's more, belief in God may be getting stronger. Last October, the proportion expressing a similarly strong belief in God had grown to 69 percent, according to a poll conducted by Princeton Survey Research. The Public Perspective retrospective is just one of several recent poll-driven analyses of Americans' religious attitudes. The big surprise is that Jews are leading the trend. But belief in life after death is growing among Jews, according to data collected in the General Social Survey conducted annually by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center.