NEWSWEEK Poll: 90% Believe in God - Newsweek Beliefs - MSNBC.com
NEWSWEEK Poll: 90% Believe in God - Newsweek Beliefs - MSNBC.com
This explain many things like the mess created in Iraq and the state of American politics. The world is paying also for the widespread ignorance with climate change, a real concern, I’m still on the fence whether climate change is man made or natural.
I had decided to stop making this blog a link blog but I couldn’t resist when I saw this article. It says 46% of Americans don’t believe there is a place called the Galapagos Islands where there are species of animals that close to their mainland brothers but are different enough to adapt to their environment. More specifically it says 46% of American don’t believe in evolution, that’s a fundamental scientific belief, I can’t say more without being more insulting but they wouldn’t know it anyway.
Although one in ten (10 percent) of Americans identify themselves as having “no religion,” only six percent said they don’t believe in a God at all. Just 3 percent of the public self-identifies as atheist, suggesting that the term may carry some stigma. Still, the poll suggests that the public’s tolerance of this small minority has increased in recent years. Nearly half (47 percent) of the respondents felt the country is more accepting of atheists today that it used to be and slightly more (49 percent) reported personally knowing an atheist. Those numbers are higher among respondents under 30 years old, 62 percent of whom report knowing an atheist (compared to just 43 percent of those 50 and older). Sixty-one percent of the under-30 cohort view society as more accepting of atheists (compared to 40 percent of the Americans 50 and older).
Still, it is unlikely that a political candidate would serve him or herself well by declaring their atheism. Six in ten (62 percent) registered voters say they would not vote for a candidate who is an atheist. Majorities of each major party — 78 percent of Repulicans and 60 percent of Democrats — rule out such an option. Just under half (45 percent) of registered independents would not vote for an atheist. Still more than a third (36 percent) of Americans think the influence of organized religion on American politics has increased in recent years. But the public is still split over whether religion has too much (32 percent) or too little (31 percent) influence on American politics. Democrats tend to fall in the “too much” camp (42 percent of them, as opposed to 29 percent who see too little influence) as Republicans take the opposite view (42 percent too little; 14 percent too much). In the poll, 68 percent of respondents said they believed someone could be moral and an atheist, compared to 26 percent who said it was not possible.
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