Protestantism

Most U.S. adults are neutral toward several religious groups, though Americans tend to rate their own religious group positively. More than a third of Americans hold unfavorable views of multiple religious groups.

About a third of U.S. parents with children under 18 say it’s extremely or very important to them that their kids share their religious beliefs.

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.

Evangelical Protestant adults under 40 are more likely than older evangelicals to say climate change is an extremely or very serious problem.

Most U.S. adults – including a solid majority of Christians and large numbers of people who identify with other religious traditions – consider the Earth sacred and believe God gave humans a duty to care for it. But highly religious Americans are far less likely than other U.S. adults to express concern about warming temperatures around the globe.

But they hold differing opinions about what that phrase means, and two-thirds of U.S. adults say churches should keep out of politics.

A majority of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, but many are open to restrictions; many opponents of legal abortion say it should be legal in some circumstances.

Churches and other houses of worship increasingly are holding services the way they did before the COVID-19 outbreak began.

While Biden’s rating is still low among White Christians, positive ratings also fell among Black Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated.

Disagreements among Americans across the religious spectrum extend to personal issues, such as life priorities and gender roles in the family.