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Americans strongly equate religion with
personal ethics and behavior, considering it an
antidote to the moral decline they perceive in
our nation today," reports a recent study. Public Agenda's
pollsters found that Americans say that social evils like
crime, greed, uncaring parents and materialism "would
be mitigated if people were more religious."
Most
Americans say it doesn't matter which religion is involved.
Many respondents would like political
figures to be more religious, but 58% say it is wrong to
vote according to church affiliation. Jewish and non religious
Americans strongly rejected mixing religion and politics.
Eighty percent of Jews said they still had to face anti-Semitism.
Two-thirds of evangelical Christians said say there's "a
lot of prejudice" against them.
The study, "For Goodness' Sake,"
was sponsored by The
Pew Charitable Trusts intending to better understand
what Americans think about religion, its role in government
and how it intersects with public life.
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