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Survey: 34 Percent Of Americans Want Christianity Made Official Religion

300px-god2-sistine_chapelWhile the North Carolina House of Representatives has finally killed the bill to allow the state to establish a state religion, a new study found that 34 percent of adults would favor establishing Christianity as the official state religion. While 47 percent opposed the establishment of state religion, it was less than a majority.

Another 11 percent thought that the Constitution allowed for the establishment of an official religion. Thus, they are entirely unaware of the workings of the first amendment or the prior rulings of the Supreme Court.

Republicans were the most likely to favor the establishment of a state religion with 55 percent favoring it in their own state and 46 percent favoring a national constitutional amendment.

While the poll reportedly included 1000 people (a sizable group), I still want to believe that it is skewed and that most people recognize the danger of religious-based government in a world torn apart of sectarian violence. Even if these people lack knowledge of the Constitution, they are given a daily lesson on the dangers of state-sponsored religion in their newspapers and news broadcasts. For those advocating such a change, they leave us with the chilling view that, for some, the problem with abusive theocratic regimes like Iran is simply the disagreement with the choice of the religion.

Source: HuffPost

398 thoughts on “Survey: 34 Percent Of Americans Want Christianity Made Official Religion”

  2. G.Mason 1, April 8, 2013 at 11:07 am

    Anti-gun folks love Obama.
    They also apparently support this

    *****

    My…you do like to generalize. ..and make stuff up. Do you have statistics/polls that prove that anti-gun people are in favor of drone strikes? Do you consider all people who support some gun control measures to be anti-gun?

  3. I went and looked at that “poll.” It has no documentation with it. Only the sample of “one thousand adults.” The poll is statistically meaningless. The methodology was not explained, sociodemographic and geographical information is not provided, and there is no explanation of how the poll was presented to those who took it. They provide an error of measurement, but that too is suspect without the other information.

    If that were turned in for a weekly assignment in a graduate statistics class, it would earn a grade of “F.”

    Having said all that, I am not saying it is not true. It may very well be. It is just that the report has no documentation to back it up. The sample of 1,000 subjects is sufficiently large to have some power. However, as presented, we do not know the validity and reliability of the poll.

  4. Btw, it will be interesting to see the reaction of the country after Bidens NWO speech. Chaos. Link is above ^

  5. It would never come to pass. The words of James Madison, the Father of the Constitution would cripple any movement from within. There are many many rightwingers that wish to see the Constitution ‘restored’ as they put it. Once they were enlightened to the words of Madison, along with the left opposing, it would derail any real effort.

  6. I can just imagine the fighting between various Christian denominations over the implementation of Christianity as the official state religion. What an endless mess this would be.

  9. Polls such as the one used in this article (HuffPost/YouGov) are significant only when they show movement. In other words is that 34% up or down from a similar poll done last year, five or 10 years ago. If the percentage is up then the threat of movement towards a national religion is increasing; if down the threat is decreasing; if static, no threat at all.

    So lets look at a couple of other polls from Pew to balance it out a bit:

    In 2012 roughly four-in-ten voters were white Protestants – 39%
    In 2008 and 2004 voters who were white Protestants – 42%
    In 2000 voters who were white Protestant – 45%

    Movement is evident and that movement shows decline in white Protestant voters from 45% in 2000 to 39% in 2012.

    The YouGov poll done by HuffPost doesn’t identify either the race or religious preference (Protestant/ Evangelical/Catholic) of the 34% favoring favor establishing Christianity as the official state religion but I’m going to draw some conclusions from outside the poll considerations.

    This is the new non-issue issue the Republican Party is considering as a rallying point for their shrinking base core leading into the 2014 election season and HuffPost is simply helping them to get the ball rolling.

  10. You know that I am right. I will not let you off of it either. It is time for honesty and accountability within our own parties as well. I am a Liberal. I refuse to allow the fascists to drag the Liberal name into the mud.

  12. Now Swath that is simply not true.
    You keep using those as adjectives while describing a group you clearly hate with a passion. This implies flaws.

    For example. The filthy, dirty, rotten crook of a President kept raping our rights. I would not say, the black, christian/muslim/athiest/satanist, crook of a president kept raping our rights. Unless I was implying that there are flaws with his race and religion.

    Nor would I use a ‘positive’ in the description of someone I am painting as a scumbag. So clearly you have problems with White People and Christians.

    You are being dishonest.

  13. Also its ironic that you spent 8 years trying to overturn elections yourself.
    Yet elected for 8 more years of Bush afterwards

    At some point maybe its time to consider that the problem isnt half the country trying to throw out the President this year or that, but perhaps the problem is the Presidents themselves.

    We are so blinded by partisan politics that we are being used against each other while we keep electing the same crook over and over. Reagan, Bush, Clinton,Bush Jr, Obama are all really the same exact President. But we refuse to see it because it would force people to admit that
    A. They were wrong.
    B. They were hypocrites and
    C. They are being lied to and used by crooks

    It takes a big,humble or beaten man/woman to admit that. Sadly most people lack the integrity to be so honest. You should try it, its refreshing and liberating.

  14. G. Mason, Never said either was bad or that I disliked them. You made that up.

  15. Swathmore two questions

    1. What is bad about someone being ‘White’ ?

    2. What is wrong with someone being ‘Christian’ ?

    I get it. You do not like White people and you do not like Christians. Why?

  16. There’s a simple solution: Everyone who wants a theocracy move into the buybull belt, and everyone who doesn’t moves out, then separate into two countries. Let them have exactly what they want.

    Within a decade, the buybull belt would be a third world country with health problems worse than Africa (both disease and obesity) as well as being overpopulated to the point of starvation. Eventually, illegals (christian theocrats from the buybull belt) would start moving into other states, looking for a better life. And Latinos coming up from Central America would stop going there.

  17. George Mason, Those that favor gun restrictions don’t necessarily love Obama but most prefer him to a bunch of gun toting white christian tea party patriots that would like to overturn the results of the election because they lost big time.

  18. G.Mason: I don’t believe you, no matter what the situation is you are going to say guns played a role. They did not. Economic pain is what did in Mubarak, not the threat of physical violence. The Egyptian Army and others did not believe they could kill their way out of people refusing to work.

    I think you prefer to live in an unrealistic fantasy world. If the Egyptians had tried an armed battle, they would have been slaughtered by the helicopter gunships and automatic weapons of the Egyptian Army, which would use the excuse to the world they were putting down a revolution; and that would have worked. To the rest of the world, putting down an armed revolution is much different than slaughtering unarmed civilians engaged in verbal protest and the equivalent of sit-ins and rallies.

    It was economic pain that forced Mubarak out, guns had nothing to do with it. I don’t think you understand how powerful a motivator money is in the real world.

  19. Mike Spindell, this is an article from Alternet with many examples of Christian bias being promulgated and promoted.
    PS. if you’re a Chuck Norris fan…. DON’T read this.

    We at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) pride ourselves on being the decisive bulwark in the fight to safeguard the religious liberties and civil rights of United States armed servicemembers who have encountered a panoply of grotesquely acute abuses visited upon them for their choices of religious preferences (or lack thereof)

    http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/michaelweinstein/chuck-norris-bar-soap-and-box-rocks

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