A closer look at Americans who believe the U.S. should be a Christian nation
More than eight-in-ten people who say the U.S. should be a Christian nation (86%) are themselves Christian.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
More than eight-in-ten people who say the U.S. should be a Christian nation (86%) are themselves Christian.
Here are key findings from our research on the relationship between religion and government in the U.S. and Americans’ views on the issue.
Nine-in-ten American Jews say they think discrimination against Jews has risen in the United States since the Israel-Hamas war began.
58% of U.S. adults say they do not believe “we are living in the end times” – the destruction of the world as we know it.
33% of adults under 30 say their sympathies lie either entirely or mostly with the Palestinian people, while 14% say their sympathies lie with the Israeli people.
While Biden’s rating is still low among White Christians, positive ratings also fell among Black Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated.
What does the 2020 electorate look like politically, demographically and religiously as the race enters its final days?
Immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa tend to be more religious than U.S.-born Black adults or immigrants from the Caribbean.
Roughly two-thirds of atheists (65%) and six-in-ten agnostics (57%) either “strongly” or “somewhat” oppose the death penalty.
While the largest Christian traditions and religious “nones” can be consistently analyzed, smaller groups produce a large margin of error.
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