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Related: About this forumFewer Americans Think Churches And Religions Solve Social Problems
http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/18/fewer-americans-think-churches-and-religion-solve-social-problems/Americans are becoming more skeptical that religion can solve social problems, according to a new poll.
Nineteen percent of U.S. adults feel religious institutions contribute a great deal to solving important social problems, while 38 percent feel that they contribute some, according to a Monday morning Pew Research Center poll.
While the majority of those polled still believe religion plays varying degrees of importance to solving social problems, this number has fallen significantly over the past two decades. In both 2001 and 2009, 75 percent of people surveyed felt that religious institutions contributed to solving social problems.
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Even after adding outside factors, such as age and political affiliation, the decline is significant. The poll found that across the spectrum young and old, Republican and Democrat, more and less religious Americans have become less likely to see churches and other houses of worship as key problem-solvers in society.
Nineteen percent of U.S. adults feel religious institutions contribute a great deal to solving important social problems, while 38 percent feel that they contribute some, according to a Monday morning Pew Research Center poll.
While the majority of those polled still believe religion plays varying degrees of importance to solving social problems, this number has fallen significantly over the past two decades. In both 2001 and 2009, 75 percent of people surveyed felt that religious institutions contributed to solving social problems.
...
Even after adding outside factors, such as age and political affiliation, the decline is significant. The poll found that across the spectrum young and old, Republican and Democrat, more and less religious Americans have become less likely to see churches and other houses of worship as key problem-solvers in society.
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Fewer Americans Think Churches And Religions Solve Social Problems (Original Post)
trotsky
Jul 2016
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Initech
(100,102 posts)1. They got drunk with power under the Bush administration.
And Bush gave the furthest right of houses of worship to wreck all kinds of havoc during their 8 years. During that time they began breaking the rule of separation of church and state by simply telling people who to vote for. And that created more problems. No wonder we don't trust them anymore.
elleng
(131,106 posts)2. Religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)3. The Bush Junta saw the RCC/Evangelicals/Mormons
take over the public sphere. Church has become more of a problem maker than solver.
I have little regard for those three.
rug
(82,333 posts)4. The Daily Caller? Tucker Carlson?!?
What is it with all these rightwing sources? Do you prefer a conservative society so lang as there's no religion?