Two of Three Americans Feel Religion Can Answer Most of Today's Problems
3/29/00 -- Two-thirds of all Americans believe that religion can answer all or most of today's problems, according to a recent Gallup poll. Large majorities of Americans also say that religion is "very" important in their lives, that they are members of a church or synagogue, and that they attend church on a regular basis. The poll also shows that belief in the relevance of religion for today's problems is quite likely to be found among college-educated and high-income Americans, as well as among the poor and among lower-educated groups.
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Unchurched America Has Changed Little in 20 Years
3/28/00 -- Approximately two in five adults (44%) are considered to be "unchurched" in America today, a percentage which has changed little over the last two decades. The number of Americans who are without a church membership or have not attended regular services within the last six months -- 44%, according to a 1998 Gallup poll -- is the same percentage recorded a decade earlier in 1988, and is only slightly higher than the percentage of the population recorded in 1978 (41%).
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Little Evidence That Born-Again or Conservative Protestants Are More Anti-Catholic Than Are Other Americans
3/27/00 -- The attitudes of conservative Protestants toward Catholics have come under scrutiny in recent months after the visit of George W. Bush to Bob Jones University, a fundamentalist college that has taken anti-Catholic positions, and the controversy surrounding the appointment of a Catholic priest to be chaplain of the House of Representatives. A new Gallup poll shows that while one-quarter of Americans have unfavorable attitudes toward Catholics, these attitudes are no more likely to occur among Protestants, those who are "born again," or supporters of the Christian right than they are among other Americans. Anti-Catholicism appears to be most strongly related to a general lack of religious belief or religious practice.
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