THEOLOGICAL
VIEWS, PRACTICES and COMMITMENT
(See
also ethnic section)
73%
(highest)
of
Pentecostal/Foursquare
believers
strongly affirm that
Christ
was
sinless
on
earth, with
Catholics,
Lutherans
and
Methodists
being
tied at
33%,
and the lowest being among
Episcopalians
with
just
28%
http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/5-barna-update/53
94.4%
of
Evangelical
Protestants
and
84.9%
of
Catholics
believe
that
Jesus
is the son of God. 42.1%
of
the former and
46.1%
of
the latter say they pray once a day or more.
http://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.php/33304.pdf
47.8%
of the
Evangelicals
and 11.8%
of Catholics
affirm
the Bible
is Literally true.
6.5%
of the
former and 19.8%
of the latter see
it as an ancient book of history and legends.
^
42.1%
of
Evangelical
Protestants and
7.1%
of Catholics
Read Scripture
weekly or more. ^
64%
of
those in Assemblies
of God churches
(versus only 9%
of
Catholics)
strongly DISAGREE
that
if a person is generally good, or does enough good things for
others they will earn a place in
Heaven
[salvation
on
the basis of merit].
^
56%
of
Assemblies
of God (versus
17%
Catholics)
Christians strongly DISAGREE
that
Satan
is
just a symbol of evil [rather than a real being].
^
Catholics and
Mainline Protestants
tend more towards belief in a more Distant
God. Baylor
Institute for Studies of Religion - American Piety in the
21
Century
– September
2006
.
http://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.php/33304.pdf
Evangelical
Protestants
and Black
Protestants
tend towards belief in a more Authoritarian God. ^
Thirty
percent
of
Protestants
listed
God
as
their
most
important connection (relationship)
versus
9%
of
Catholics.
Barna,
2008
http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/13-culture/44-americans-identify-their-most-important-relationships
Political conservatives
were almost three times as likely as political liberals
to identify God
as their most important relationship
(33% vs. 12%,
respectively). ^
About 56 percent
of Evangelicals currently say
they're strongly affiliated
with their religion, while only 35
percent of Catholics say the
same, and 4% lower than mainline
Protestants (devoutness of Mainline
Protestants [distinct from
evangelicals] fell to roughly 30 percent
in the late 1970s to late 1980s
before gradually climbing to 39 percent
in 2010)
https://www.barna.com/research/protestants-catholics-and-mormons-reflect-diverse-levels-of-religious-activity
Bible
Reading:
the highest was 75%,
by those going to a
Pentecostal/Foursquare
church
who reported they had read
the Bible during
the past week (besides at church), while the
lowest
was
among Catholics
at
23%
^
Volunteer
church work
(during past 7
days): Assemblies of God
were highest at 30%,
with the lowest going to Catholics at 12%.
^
Donating Money
(during the last month): Church of
Christ churches were the highest at
29%,
with Catholics
being the lowest at 12% ^
American evangelicals
gave
four times as much money,
per person, to churches as did all other church donors
in 2001.
88 percent of
evangelicals
and 73
percent
of all Protestants donated to churches. John
Ronsvalle and Sylvia Ronsvalle, The State of Church Giving
through 2004:
Will We Will?
16th
ed. (Champaign, Ill.: Empty Tomb,
2006),12.
http://www.generousgiving.org/stats#
Data from a variety of researchers
indicates that Catholics
give one-third to one-half the portion of income that
Protestants
give. http://www.emptytomb.org/cathgiv.html
A Catholic
survey reports that 4 percent of US
Catholics described themselves as
“very” involved
in parish or religious activities
other than attending Mass, and 11%
as “somewhat involved, and 64%
as “not involved at all.” Among weekly
(or more) attendees (approx 22% of
adult Catholics), 13%
were very” involved,
29% “somewhat involved
and 25% not involved at
all.”
http://cara.georgetown.edu/CARAServices/FRStats/devotionpractice.pdf
59% of
Catholics (and
80% of weekly attendees) reported they had a statue
or picture of Mary
on display in their home, but 48%
never pray the rosary.
By denomination, 61%
of the those associated with an Assemblies
of God church said they had shared their faith at least
once during the past year, as did 61%
of those who attend a Pentecostal/Foursquare
church, and ending 14% among
Episcopalians and just 10%
among Roman Catholics.
http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/5-barna-update/54
25%
of Evangelical
Christians and 20%
of other Protestants
and 7%
of Catholics
said the read the Bible on a
daily basis. 44%
of Catholics
said they rarely or never read
the Bible,
along with only 7%
of Evangelical
Christians
and 13%
of other Protestants.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/december_2008/catholics_protestants_practice_faith_in_different_ways
91% of
Evangelical Christians and 63%
of other Protestants and 25%
of Catholics consider themselves to
be born again; ^
44% of
Evangelical Christians reflect
at least daily on the meaning
of Scripture in their lives. 36%
of other Protestants and 22%
of Catholics do the same; ^
52% of
Evangelical Christians have had a
meaningful discussion about their faith
with a non-Christian during the
past month. 28% of other
Protestants and 18%
of Catholics also have held such a
discussion. ^
68%
of Evangelical
Christians attend a
regular
Bible Study or
participate in some other small-group
activity. 47%
of other Protestants
take part in small groups
related to their faith, along with
24%
of Catholics.
^
Church
attendance [2001]: 69%
of
those associated with Assembly
of God churches,
and 66%
of
other Pentecostal
churches
and 61%
of
those in non-denominational
Protestant
churches were the most likely
to
have attended in the past week (which does to mean they always
do) .
However,
numbers from head
counts show
the actual rate
of
attendance
nationwide is
less
than
half
(around 18%) of
what the pollsters report, though some studies show attendance
at services as increasing.
http://www.churchleaders.com/pastors/pastor-articles/139575-7-startling-facts-an-up-close-look-at-church-attendance-in-america.html;
From
2000
to
2004
the
Catholic
Church
experienced an 11%
decrease in
its attendance percentage, followed by mainline
Protestant
churches
which saw a 10%
percentage
decline, while Evangelicals
experienced
the smallest drop at 1%.
http://www.churchleaders.com/pastors/pastor-articles/139575-7-startling-facts-an-up-close-look-at-church-attendance-in-america.html
Another study found that a
growing number of people are attending small
Christian groups,
with 24.5% of Americans
now saying their primary form of
spiritual nourishment is meeting with a small
group of 20 or less people
every week. ^
Church
attendance
[2002-2005]:
Evangelicals
at approx.
60
percent
showed
the highest percentage of those who reported
they
attended services weekly or almost
weekly,
with 30%
going more
than once a week.
Catholics
were
at 45
percent
(9%
more
than once a week), and Jews
15
percent.
Gallup
poll. between
2002
and
2005.
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20060418/weekly-attendance-highest-among-Evangelical-churches.htm
2102: The
percentage of all Catholics who say they attend Mass at least
once a week has dropped from 47% in
1974 to 24% in 2012. -
http://www.pewforum.org/2013/03/13/strong-catholic-identity-at-a-four-decade-low-in-us/
A 2007 Pew
survey reported that 9% of
Catholics said they attended Mass more than once a week, and 33%
once a week, while evangelicals were at 30%
for more than once a week, and 28%
for once a week, respectively. -
http://www.pewforum.org/files/2015/01/comparison-Frequency-of-Attendance-at-Religious-Services.pdf
A Catholic
study reported that the percentage of U.S. adult Catholics
who say they attended Mass
once a week or more (i.e., those attending every
week) was 24% in 2012.
http://cara.georgetown.edu/caraservices/requestedchurchstats.html
54
percent of
Catholics
who
came of age before
Vatican
Two (10
percent of
Catholics today) attend Mass weekly, compared to
23
percent of
millennial
Catholics,
those born from 1979
to
1987.
http://blogs.thearda.com/trend/featured/counting-catholics-church-of-immigrants-poised-for-growth/
39
percent
of
Catholics
affirmed
not
attending church
is
a sin, versus 23
percent
of
Protestants.
Ellison
Research, March
11,
2008
http://ellisonresearch.com/releases/20080311.htm
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080312/study-behaviors-americans-consider-sinful.htm
Christian
church
attendance
is
between 1
½
and
2
times
higher in the South
and
the Midwest
than
it is in the West
and
the Northeast
[the
latter two have the highest percentage of Catholics].
http://www.theamericanchurch.org/facts/8.htm;
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2007/03/01/how-many-americans-attend-church-each
The
states with the most
frequent churchgoers were
Mississippi, Alabama, S. Carolina, Louisiana, Utah Tennessee,
Arkansas, N. Carolina, Georgia, then Texas. The states with the
most
infrequent churchgoers were
Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Hawaii,
Oregon, Alaska, then Washington.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/125999/mississippians-go-church-most-vermonters-least.aspx
http://www.gallup.com/poll/22579/church-attendance-lowest-new-england-highest-south.aspx
Catholics'
responses to the questions that make up the 2004
Gallup
Index of Leading Religious Indicators show Catholics
lag
noticeably behind
Protestants
on
all but two of the survey items that make up the Index: belief
in God and church membership.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/14725/protestants-vs-catholics-whos-got-religion.aspx
Among
those who
converted
to
a Christian
denomination,
42%
of
of those to Roman
Catholicism,
43%
of
Episcopalian
converts,
44%
of
those to
Lutheranism,
48%
of
those to
Methodism,
50%
of
those to the
Presbyterian
church,
60%
of
Baptist
converts,
60%
of
Non-denominational
converts, and
73%
of
of converts to
Pentecostal
churches
reported they attend
services weekly.
http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=482
In
2011,
49%
of
Catholics
were
likely to attend church services [not necessarily weekly], down
from 59%
in
1991,
while 29%
were
unchurched,
up from 20%
in
1991,
and were 10 points less likely to volunteer
at
their church (down to only 9%).
http://www.barna.org/faith-spirituality/514-barna-study-of-religious-change-since-1991-shows-significant-changes-by-faith-group
Of
an estimated Catholic
population
in the United States of almost
78
million, less
than 48
million attend more
than once
yearly.
http://www.glenmary.org/rcms2010/
See
HERE
for
2001
church
attendance
(based
on adults who attended a church service in the past week) by
Denomination.
49%
of
evangelical
adults
fit the
charismatic
definition,
with
7%
of
Southern
Baptist
churches
and
6%
of
mainline
churches
being
charismatic,
according to their Senior Pastors,
9%
of
whom are
female
(same
as non-charismatic).
36%
of
all U.S.
Catholics,
and
22%
of
all
charismatics
in
the U.S. identify as
Catholic.
Barna
research, 2008
http://www.barna.org/congregations-articles/52-is-american-christianity-turning-charismatic
51%
of all born
again Christians
are charismatic,
with 46%
of all adults who attend a
Protestant
church identifying with that.
16%
of the country's white
Protestant congregations
are Pentecostal,
compared to 65%
of the Protestant
churches dominated by
African-Americans.
(Barna
research, 2008)
The
highest
percentage
of those who strongly agree they have a personal
responsibility
to
share
their faith
was
found among believers in
Pentecostal/Foursquare
churches
(73%)
http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/5-barna-update/53
81%
of
Pentecostal/Foursquare
believers strongly agree that
the Bible
is totally accurate in all
that it teaches , followed by 77%
of Assemblies
of God believers,
and ending with 26%
of Catholics
and 22%
of Episcopalians.
^
The
percentage of Catholics who
believed the Bible is
totally accurate in
all of the principles it
teaches declined from
34% in
1991 to 26%
in 2011
http://www.barna.org/faith-spirituality/514-barna-study-of-religious-change-since-1991-shows-significant-changes-by-faith-group.
Catholics
[2012] report the lowest proportion
of strongly affiliated followers
among major American religious traditions, with a considerable
divergence between evangelical
Protestants on the one hand and Catholics
and mainline Protestants
on the other. There was an abrupt decline
in strength of affiliation among Catholics
starting in 1984 and ending in
1989. Thus may be due to the
growing number of Latino Catholics
responding to the survey. Previous research has shown Latino
Catholics were less likely to report a strong
religious affiliation compared with other Catholics.
Also, the percentage of Americans who say they adhere to no
religion climbed from about 6
percent in the 1970s and 1980s
to 16 percent in 2010.
http://www.science20.com/news_articles/religion_america_evangelicals_surge_catholics_wane-97244
The
typical
Catholic
person
was
38%
less
likely than the average American to
read
the Bible;
67%
less
likely to attend a
Sunday
school
class;
20%
less
likely to share their
faith
in
Christ
with
someone who had different beliefs,
donated
about
17%
less
money
to
churches, and were
36%
less
likely to have an "active
faith,"
defined as reading the
Bible,
praying
and
attending
a church service
during
the prior week.
Catholics
were
also significantly less likely to believe that the Bible is
totally
accurate
in
all of the principles it teaches.
44%
of
Catholics
claimed
to be "absolutely
committed"
to their faith, compared to
54%
of
the entire adult population. However, Catholics were
16%
more
likely to attend a church
service
and
8%
more
likely to have
prayed
to
God during the prior week than the
average
American.
Barna
Reaearch, 2007, “Catholics Have Become Mainstream America”
http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/12-faithspirituality/100
82%
of
Mainline
Churches,
77%
of
Catholics
and
53%
of
Evangelical
Churches
affirmed, "There is MORE
than
one
true way to
interpret the teachings
of
my religion."
U.S.
Religious landscape survey; Copyright © 2008
The
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
http://religions.pewforum.org/comparisons#
Orthodox
(29%),
Mainline
Churches
(28%),
and Catholics
(27%)
led Christian Churches in affirming that the Scriptures
were
written by men and were not
the
word of God,
versus
just and 7%
of
Evangelical
Churches,
who instead rightly affirm its full
inspiration of
God.^
Catholics
broke
with
their Church's
teachings more
than most other groups, with just
six
out
of 10
Catholics
affirming that God is "a person with whom people can have a
relationship", and three in
10
describing
God as an "impersonal force."
2008
The
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
http://religions.pewforum.org/comparisons#
Only
33%
of
Catholics
strongly
affirmed that Christ
was sinless on
earth.
http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/5-barna-update/53
A
1992
Catholic-funded
Gallup Poll found only 30%
of
American Catholics
affirmed:
"When receiving Holy Communion,
you are really and truly
receiving the
Body
and
Blood,
Soul
and
Divinity
of
the Lord
Jesus
Christ,
under the appearance
of
bread and wine. Poll
of 519 American Catholics, 18 years or older, conducted from
December 10, 1991, to January 19, 1992,
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-79305248.html
Responding
to the questions on the
Roman
Catholic
Eucharist,
“Which of the following comes closest to what you believe
takes place at Mass: (1) The bread and wine are
changed
into
the body and blood of Christ, or (2) The bread and wine are
symbolic
reminders
of Christ? 63%
of
Roman
Catholics overall,
and 51%
of
weekly
attenders,
and
70%
of
all
Catholics
in
the age group
18
to
44
affirmed
the Roman
Catholic
Eucharist
is
a "symbolic
reminder"
of Jesus
[it
is, of His death],
indicating they do not believe it is really Jesus body and blood
[as
Rome erroneously
teaches].
New
York Times/CBS News poll, Apr.
21-23,
1994,
subsample of
446
Catholics,
MOE ±
5%
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1252/is_n2_v122/ai_16233123/pg_8/
1995 Commonweal Foundation
In
a survey by the Pew Forum, 55%
of
Catholics
affirmed
that
their church teaches that the bread
and
wine
in
their liturgy of the Lord's supper become
Christ’s
body and blood,
while
(41%)
said that the church teaches that the bread and wine are
symbols.
http://pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx
A
study by the Roper Center and commissioned
by
Catholic
World
Report reported
that 82%
of
Catholics who attend
Mass at least once a week agreed
with
the statement that "the
bread and wine
used
at Mass are actually transformed
into
the body
and blood of Christ."
. Catholic
World
Report; 1997 survey of 1,000 Catholic Americans by Roper Center
for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut.
http://www.adoremus.org/397-Roper.html
A
Catholic polling service reported that 57
percent of adult Catholics (and
91% of adult weekly Mass
attenders), said their belief about the
Eucharist is best reflected by the
statement “Jesus Christ is really present in
the bread and wine of the Eucharist,”
[a statement which Lutherans could assent
to] versus to 43 percent who said
their belief is best reflected in the statement, “Bread
and wine are symbols of Jesus, but Jesus
is not really present.” Center
for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown
University, 2007, commissioned by the Department of
Communications of the United States Conference of Catholic
Bishops (USCCB)
A
2008 Catholic commissioned survey
of adult Catholics reported 68%
of
Catholics
affirmed
you could be a good
Catholic
without
going to Mass
every
Sunday, and 55%
thought
of themselves as good
Catholics. 77% of
Catholics
agreed
they were proud
to
be Catholic,
(85%
of
weekly attendees) and 61%
agreed
that sacraments
were
essential
to
their faith
(83%
of
weekly attendees).
2008
poll of 1,007 self-identified adult Catholics by the Center for
Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown
University; http://cara.georgetown.edu/beliefattitude.pdf
43%
of
Catholics
overall
(and
36%
of
weekly attendees) affirmed they look to Catholic
teachings and
statements made the pope
and
bishops
to
form their conscience
on
what is morally
acceptable
.
^
36%
of
weekly
attendees
affirmed their Catholic
faith
was
the most
important
part
of their life, 39%
said
it was “among the most important.” ^
83%
of
Catholics
affirmed
that helping
those in
need
was
important to their sense
of
what it means to be a Catholic;
79%
affirmed
the Eucharist
was,
73%
said
living according to Church teachings,
68%
said
devotion
to
Mary,
and 66%
said
attending Mass.
Catholics
in
the South
are
the most likely to say such things are “very
important.”
^
75%
of
surveyed adult
Catholics
said
they never doubted the Trinity,
68%
that
the Father
created
all
we know of the Universe,
73%
that
Christ
rose
from
the dead, 59%
that
there is a Hell,
and 44%
that
the pope
and
bishops
have
taken the place of Peter
and
the apostles.
^
Almost
a third of Catholics
surveyed, including 15
percent of highly committed
church members, said one could be a good
Catholic without believing Jesus
rose from the dead.
http://blogs.thearda.com/trend/featured/counting-catholics-church-of-immigrants-poised-for-growth/
66%
of Catholics supported women's ordination to
the priesthood, and 73% approved of
the way John Paul II leads the church. Surveying
the Religious Landscape: Trends in U.S. Beliefs by George
Gallup, Jr. and D. Michael Lindsay (Morehouse Publishing, 1999).
Copyright © 2004 --
The Gallup Organization www.gallup.com
80%
of Catholics believe it is possible to
disagree with the pope on official positions on morality
and still be a good Catholic.
Time/CNN nationwide poll of 1,000
adults, conducted by Yankelovich Partners, Sept.
27-28, 1995; subsample of 500 Catholics,
MOE ± 4.5%
77%
of
Catholics
polled
"believe a person can be a good
Catholic without
going to Mass every Sunday,
65
percent
believe
good Catholics can divorce
and
remarry, and 53
percent
believe
Catholics can have abortions
and
remain in good standing.
1999
poll
by the National Catholic
Reporter.
http://www.catholictradition.org/v2-bombs14b.htm
Comparing
Catholics
and other Americans, 44% of Catholics claimed
to be "absolutely committed" to their faith versus
54%
of
the
entire adult population, and donated about 17%
less
money
to
churches;
was 38%
less
likely than the average American to read
the Bible; 67%
less
likely to attend a
Sunday
school class; 20% less
likely to share
their faith in
Christ with someone who had different beliefs;
24%
less
likely to say their religious faith has greatly transformed
their life; and
were 36%
less
likely to have an "active
faith,"
(defined as reading the Bible, praying and attending a church
service during the prior week.) Yet Catholics were
16%
more
likely than the norm to attend a
church
service and 8% more
likely to have
prayed
to
God during the prior week. Catholics
Have Become Mainstream America, Barna research, July 9, 2007
https://www.barna.org/barna-update/faith-spirituality/100-catholics-have-become-mainstream-america#.VDZOGDRxnGg
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MORAL
VIEWS AND BEHAVIORS
40%
Roman Catholics
vs. 41% Non-R.C. see
abortion as "morally
acceptable"; Sex between
unmarried couples: 67% vs. 57%; Baby out of wedlock: 61% vs.
52%; Homosexual relations: 54% vs.
45%; Gambling: 72% vs. 59%
http://www.gallup.com/poll/117154/Catholics-Similar-Mainstream-Abortion-Stem-Cells.aspx
Committed
Roman Catholics (church attendance weekly or almost) versus
Non-R.C. faithful church goers (see
the below as as morally acceptable):
Abortion:
24%
of R.C.
vs. 19%
Non-R.C.;
Sex between unmarried
couples:
53%
vs.
30%;
Baby
out of wedlock: 48%
vs.
29%;
Homosexual
relations:
44%
vs.
21%;
Gambling:
67%
vs.
40%;
Divorce:
63
vs.
46% ^
Comparing
16 moral behaviors, Catholics were less
likely to say mean things about
people behind their back, and tending to engage in recycling
more. However, they were also twice as
likely to view pornographic content
on the Internet, and were more prone to use profanity, to
gamble, and to buy lottery tickets. ^
In
a survey asking whether one approves or rejects or
overall sees little consequence (skeptical) to society regarding
seven trends on the family (More:
unmarried couples raising children; gay and lesbian couples
raising children; single women having children without a male
partner to help raise them; people living together without
getting married; mothers of young children working outside the
home; people of different races marrying each other; and more
women not ever having children), 42% of
all Protestants were
“Rejecters” of the modern
trend, 35% were Skeptics, and 23%
were “Approvers.” Among
Catholics, 27% were Rejecters, 34%
were Approvers, and 39% were
Skeptics. (Among non religious, 10%
were Rejecters, 48% were
Approvers, and 42% were Skeptics.)
Pew forum, The Public
Renders a Split Verdict On Changes in Family Structure, February
16, 2011
http://pewsocialtrends.org/2011/02/16/the-public-renders-a-split-verdict-on-changes-in-family-structure/#prc_jump
50
percent
of
Protestants
affirmed
gambling
was
a sin,
versus
15
percent
of
Catholics;
that
getting
drunk
was
a sin:
63
percent
of
Protestants,
28
percent
of
Catholics; gossip:
70
percent
to
45
percent:
homosexual
activity
or sex:
72
percent
to
42
percent.
Ellison
Research, March 11, 2008
http://ellisonresearch.com/releases/20080311.htm
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080312/study-behaviors-americans-consider-sinful.htm
Combined
aggregate results from 9 surveys
conducted from 2001 through 2004
show 71% of Protestants
(68% of regular
church goers) and 66%
of Catholics (59%
of regular Catholic church-goers)
support capital punishment.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/gallup-poll-who-supports-death-penalty
73
percent of Catholics rejected
Catholic teaching artificial methods of
birth control. Catholic
World Report; 1997
survey of 1,000 Catholic Americans by Roper Center for Public
Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut
Only
20 percent strongly agreed
with the
Church teaching that only men may be
ordained. ^
Of
never-married adult females, 25% of
Evangelicals, 11% of Catholics and
14% of Mainline Protestants
professed never to
be have had sexual relations.
Countering
Conventional Wisdom: New Evidence on Religion and Contraceptive
Use, Guttmacher Institute, April. 2011
Contraceptives
Just
15% of U.S. Catholics
say that using contraceptives is
morally wrong. 41%
say that using contraceptives is morally acceptable,
while 36% say it is not a moral
issue. 37%
of Catholics who attend Mass
at least once a week say using contraceptives
is morally wrong
while 33% say it is morally
acceptable and 30%
say it is not a moral issue.
—
http://www.pewresearch.org/key-data-points/u-s-catholics-key-data-from-pew-research/#abortion
74%
of Evangelicals, 73%
of Mainline Protestants,
and 68% of sexually active
Catholics women use birth
control. 3%
of the Catholics rely on natural
family planning. Attendance
at religious services and
importance of religion to daily
life are largely unrelated to use of highly effective
contraceptive methods. ^
88%
of Catholics believe that they can
practice artificial means of birth control
and still be considered good Catholics. New
York Times/CBS News poll, Apr. 21-23, 1994, subsample of 446
Catholics, MOE ± 5%
98%
of self-identified Catholic women
ages 15-44 who have ever had sexual
relations have used a method of contraception
other than natural family planning at some point in their lives.
.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-claim-that-98-percent-of-catholic-women-use-contraception-a-media-foul/2012/02/16/gIQAkPeqIR_blog.html?wprss=fact-checker
40%
of 18- to 29-year-old Catholics
said the church’s “teachings
on sexuality and birth
control are out of date.”
http://www.barna.org/teens-next-gen-articles/528-six-reasons-young-christians-leave-church
59%
of all Catholic women of childbearing age
practice contraception—a rate
of usage statistically equivalent
to that of the general population
(60%). Calvin Goldscheider and William D.
Mosher, "Patterns of Contraceptive Use in the United
States:
58%
of Catholics 52%
if they
are voters) believe that employers
should
be required to provide their employees with health care plans
that cover
contraception;
50%
of white Catholics
support
this requirement, versus 47%
who oppose it,
along with 38%
of
white evangelical
Protestants
an 50% of
white mainline Protestants.
Public
Religion Research Institute, February 2012
http://publicreligion.org/research/2012/02/january-tracking-poll-2012/
Abortion
[2000-2001]
Catholic women
had an abortion
rate
29
percent
higher
than Protestants.
43%
of
women over age 17 in the 2000-2001 survey said they were
Protestant,
while 27 percent
said
they were Catholic.
13
percent
said
they were evangelical
or
“born-again.”
Catholics
were
more likely
to
get an abortion:
The abortion
rate
for
Catholic
women
was 22
per
1,000
women;
the rate for Protestants
was
18
per
1,000
women,
Alan
Guttmacher Institute
http://www.catholicleague.org/research/Catholic_women_and_abortion.htm;
http://www.factcheck.org/2007/12/abortions-comparing-catholic-and-protestant-women/
75%
of
white evangelical Protestants
consider
having
an
abortion
morally
wrong, as
do 64% of
Hispanic Catholics, 58% of
black Protestants, 53% of
white Catholics, 38% of
white mainline Protestants and
25% of
religiously unaffiliated
adults.
http://www.pewforum.org/2013/08/15/abortion-viewed-in-moral-terms/
White
evangelical Protestants are
the only major religious group in which a majority
(54%) favors
completely
overturning Roe
v. Wade. http://www.pewforum.org/2013/01/16/roe-v-wade-at-40/
35%
of white evangelicals and
52% of 59% of
white Catholics see overturning Roe
v. Wade as not that
important. http://www.pewforum.org/2013/01/16/roe-v-wade-at-40/
64%
of white evangelical Protestants
[blacks make up 6% of
all evangelicals] believe
abortion should
be illegal in
all or most cases, as do
52% of Hispanic Catholics, and
41% of white Catholics, and
39% of black Protestants, and
31% of white mainline Protestants.
http://www.pewforum.org/2013/01/16/public-opinion-on-abortion-slideshow/
31%
of faithful
Catholics (those who attend church weekly,
2004) say abortion
should be legal either in "many"
or in "all" cases.. 2004,
The Gallup
Organization Gallup Survey for Catholics Speak Out: 802
Catholics, May 1992, MOE ± 4%;
When
ask to choose, three-fourths
of
all
Protestant
pastors
surveyed
said [2009]
they are pro-life,
and 13
percent
said
they were pro-choice.
LifeWay
Research;
http://www.lifeway.com/ArticleView?storeId=10054&catalogId=10001&langId=-1&article=LifeWay-Research-protestant-pastors-share-views-on-gay-marriage-abortion
26
percent of Catholics (2007) polled
strongly agree with the Church's unequivocal position on
abortion Catholic
World Report; survey of 1,000 Catholic Americans
by Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of
Connecticut; http://www.adoremus.org/397-Roper.html
46
percent of Catholics who
say they attend mass weekly accept Church teaching on
abortion; 43 percent accept
the all-male priesthood; and
30 percent see contraception as morally
wrong. ^
In
1992 0nly 13 percent
of Catholics overall
agreed that abortion
could never be a moral choice. 41%
said it was morally acceptable in
rare circumstances
and another 41 percent said it was
morally acceptable in many
or all
circumstances. 70%
of Catholics overall agreed that
Catholics can vote in good
conscience for political
candidates who support
legal abortion.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/19/us/bishops-meet-catholics-voice-differences-with-church-s-doctrine-poll-finds.html
Fornication,
homosexuality
In
a 2010 LifeWay
Research survey
77
percent
of
American
Protestant
pastors
(57%
of
mainline
versus
87%
evangelical)
strongly
disagree
with
same-sex
marriage,
with 6%
percent
somewhat
disagreeing,
and 5%
being
somewhat
in
agreement
and
10 percent
strongly
agreeing.
(5%
of
evangelical).
Only
3%
of
evangelical
pastors
(versus
11%
mainline)
somewhat agree
that
there is nothing
wrong with
homosexual
marriage.
11%
of
evangelical
pastors
(versus 30%
mainline)
somewhat
agree
that
homosexual
civil unions are
acceptable,
with 67%
of
the former
and
38%
of
the latter
strongly
disagreeing
with
homosexual
civil unions.
October
2010 LifeWay Research survey of 1,000 randomly selected
Protestant pastors.
http://www.lifeway.com/ArticleView?storeId=10054&catalogId=10001&langId=-1&article=LifeWay-Research-protestant-pastors-oppose-homosexual-marriage
A
2002
nationwide
poll of 1,854
priests in
the United
States and
Puerto Rico
reported
that 30%
of
Roman Catholic priests
described
themselves as Liberal,
28%
as
Conservative,
and 37%
as
Moderate
in
their Religious ideology. 53
percent
responded
that they thought it always was a sin
for
unmarried
people
to have sexual relations; 32
percent
that
is often was, and 9
percent
seldom/never.
However, nearly four
in 10 younger
priests in 2002
described
themselves as conservative,
and were more likely to regard as "always
a sin"
such acts as premarital sex,
abortion,
artificial birth
control,
homosexual
relations,
etc., and three-fourths said they were more religiously orthodox
than
their older
counterparts.
Los
Angeles Times (extensive) nationwide survey (2002).
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/resources/resource-files/reports/LAT-Priest-Survey.pdf
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_2_39/ai_94129129/pg_2
The
survey also found that 80% of Roman
Catholic priests referred to
themselves as “mostly”
heterosexual in orientation, with
67% being exclusively
heterosexual, 8% leaning
toward heterosexual, 5% completely
in the middle, and 6%
leaning toward homosexual
and 9% saying they are homosexual,
for a combined figure of 15% on the
homosexual
class. Among younger
priests (those ordained for 20
years or less) the figure was 23%.
^
One-third
of
surveyed priests said they “do not waver” from their
vow of celibacy,
while 47%
described
celibacy
as
“an ongoing journey” and 14%
said
they “do not always succeed in following” it. 2%
said
celibacy
is
not relevant to their priesthood and they do not observe it. not
celibate.
^
71
percent of priests
responded that it always was wrong for
a woman to get an abortion,
19 percent that it often was, and 4
percent seldom/never. ^
28
percent judged that is always was sin for
married couples to use artificial birth control, 25
percent often, 40 percent never. ^
49
percent affirmed
that
it was always a sin to
engage in homosexual
behavior,
often, 25 percent; and never, 19 percent.
^
To
take one's own life
if
suffering from a debilitating disease: always, 59
percent;
often, 18
percent;
never, 17
percent.
^
A
combined 15 percent of
the clergy polled identified themselves as "gay
(9%) > or
more (6%) on the homosexual
side."
Among younger priests 23 percent did so. Los
Angeles Times (extensive) nationwide survey (2002).
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/resources/resource-files/reports/LAT-Priest-Survey.pdf
17
percent of the priests
said "definitely" , and
27% said "probably," a homosexual
subculture'--defined
as a `definite group of persons that has its own friendships,
social gatherings and vocabulary'--exists in their diocese or
religious order. ^
After
examining the official web sites of 244 Catholic
universities and colleges
in America, the TFP Student Action found that 107 – or 43%
have pro-homosexual
clubs. TFP Student
Action Dec. 6. 2011;
https://veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/pro-gay-clubs-found-at-107-catholic-universities/; Related: https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/01/25/as-i-found-out-with-my-daughter-not-even-catholic-schools-are-safe-havens-from-gender-ideology/
39
percent
of
Roman
Catholics
and
79
percent
of
born-again,
evangelical
or
fundamentalist
American
Christians affirm that
homosexual
behavior
is sinful.
LifeWay
(SBC) Research study, released Wednesday. 2008
LifeWay
Research study.
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080606/survey-americans-divided-on-homosexuality-as-sin.htm
79
percent
of
American
Jews,
58
percent
of
Catholics
and
56
percent
of
mainline
Protestants
favor
acceptance of
homosexuality,
versus
39
percent
of
members of historically black churches,
27
percent
of
Muslims and
26
percent
of
the
evangelical
Protestants.
U.S.
U.S.
Religious landscape survey; Copyright © 2008
The
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
http://religions.pewforum.org/comparisons#
56%
of Catholics overall (and 46% of
the general public) believe that
sexual relations between two adults
of the same gender is not a
sin, while 39%. of
Catholics say homosexual
behavior is morally wrong,
(versus 76% of
white evangelicals
and 66% of
black Protestants, and 40%
of Mainline Protestants). 41%
of Catholics do not consider
homosexual behavior to be a moral issue.
(Pew Research
Center, Religion & Politics Survey, 2009; PRRI/RNS Religion
News Survey, October 2010;
http://publicreligion.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Catholics-and-LGBT-Issues-Survey-Report.pdf)
Catholics
testify [2010] to showing more support
(in numbers) for legal recognitions
of same-sex relationships
than members of any other Christian tradition, and Americans
overall. Almost three-quarters of
Catholics favor either allowing
gay and lesbian
people to marry or allowing them to
form civil unions
(43% and 31%
respectively). Only 22% of
Catholics said there should be no
legal recognition
of a gay couple’s
relationship. (PRRI,
Pre--election American Values Survey, 9/2010;
http://publicreligion.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Catholics-and-LGBT-Issues-Survey-Report.pdf.)
This
2010 survey of more than 3,000
adults found that
41% of White American Catholics,
45% of Latino Catholics (versus
16 percent of White evangelical Christians,
and 23% of
Black Protestants) supported the rights of
same-sex couples
to marry, and 36% (22% of
Latino Catholics) supported civil
unions (versus 24% of White
evangelicals, and 25% of Black
Protestants). Among the general
public the rates
were 37 and 27 percent.
69%
of Catholics disagree that
homosexual orientation can
be changed, versus 23% who
believe that they can change. ^
19%
of White Catholics, 30% of Latino Catholics,
58% of White evangelicals, 52% of Black Protestants and 29% of
White Mainline Protestants oppose any legal recognition
of homosexual marriage. ^
60%
of Catholics overall, and
53% of the general public favor
allowing homosexual
couples to adopt children. ^
73%
of Catholics favor laws that would
protect gay and lesbian people against
discrimination in the workplace, and
63% favor allowing homosexuals
to serve openly in the military.
For the general public the figures
are 68% and 58% respectively.
^
49%
of Catholics and 45% of the general public agree
that homosexuals
should be eligible for
ordination with no special requirements.
^
Among
Catholics who attend services
regularly (weekly or more), 31% say
there should be no legal recognition for
homosexual relationships (marriage
or civil unions), with 26% favoring
allowing gay and lesbian people to marry, versus
43% of Catholics who
attend once or twice
a month, and
59% of Catholics who
attend a few times a year or less
favoring allowance of homosexual
marriage. ^
27%
of Catholics who
attend church services regularly
say their clergy speak about the
issue of homosexuality, with
63% of this group saying the
messages they hear are negative. ^
48%
of white evangelical Protestants
oppose letting homosexuals
serve openly in the military, with
34% supporting
this proposal, versus 63% of
Catholics (66%
of white) supporting and 23%
opposing. Pew
forum, November 29, 2010,
http://pewforum.org/uploadedFiles/Topics/Issues/Gay_Marriage_and_Homosexuality/gays%20in%20military%20full%20report.pdf
White
evangelicals are most satisfied
with their church’s handling of homosexuality,
with 75 percent giving it an `A’
or a `B.’ Catholics
are the most critical, with nearly
a third — twice as many as any other group — giving
their church a `D’ or `F.’
Oct. 2010 Poll
sponsored by the Public Religion Research Institute and the
Religion News Service.
http://thepulpit.freedomblogging.com/2010/10/22/survey-links-gay-bullying-to-religion/7682/
31%
of Catholics called celibacy
a major factor
leading to sexual abuse,
while another 28% called it a minor
factor. 35% said celibacy
did not play a part in the abuse.
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/poll_catholics_050410_2pm.pdf
30%,
meanwhile, said homosexuality
played a major role. An additional
23% said it played a minor
role. 37% said it was not
a factor. ^
The
percentage of percentage of adults Protestants
who
have been married
and divorced
is
34%
versus
28%
for
Catholics,
(the survey not determining if the divorce
occurred
before or after conversions) while Evangelicals
were
at
26%.
Atheists
or
agnostic
were
at
30%
(only
65%
were
ever married, vs. 84%
for
born-again
Christians)
while those aligned with a
non-Christian
faith
were at
38%.
The
largest disparity (17%)
relative to
divorce
was
between high and low income levels (22%
to
39%).
http://www.barna.org/family-kids-articles/42-new-marriage-and-divorce-statistics-released
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VIEWS AND AFFILIATION
82%
of White evangelicals
(blacks
make up
6%
of
evangelicals, and 15% of all blacks), along with 84%
of
Orthodox
Jews
overall,
versus
38%
of
Catholics
and
16%
of
no-religion
Jews, affirmed
that
God
gave the land of Israel to the Jews. 50% of
White
evangelicals disagree
that
Israel
and
an independent
Palestinian
state
can
coexist peacefully.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/10/03/more-white-evangelicals-than-american-jews-say-god-gave-israel-to-the-jewish-people/
46%
of white evangelical Protestants, versus
20% of Catholics, say that the U.S.
is not providing enough support for Israel. 22% of
Catholics think the level of support for
Israel is to high, versus just 12%
of White evangelicals .
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/02/27/strong-support-for-israel-in-u-s-cuts-across-religious-lines/
Asking
Americans (June 2014) to rate eight religious
groups on a “feeling
thermometer” from 0 to 100, white
evangelicals (6% of
evangelicals are black) averaged 82
toward each other,
69 toward Jews
(who averaged 34 toward them) and
63 toward Catholics,
30 toward Muslims,
and 25 toward atheists
(who averaged 28 toward them).
Catholics
averaged 80 toward each
other, 61
toward Jews (who averaged 58
toward them), 57 toward evangelical
Christians, 40 toward Muslims
and 38 toward atheists
(who averaged 47 toward them). —
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/16/u-s-evangelical-christians-are-chilly-toward-atheists-and-the-feeling-is-mutual/
A
study which broke down Mainline
Protestants, Evangelical Protestants, and non-Hispanic Catholics
into the three subgroups of
traditionalists,
centrists, and
modernists, found that
5.3 percent of the
population qualified as traditionalist
Catholic,
5.4 percent as
centrist Catholics, and
4.9 percent
of were modernist
Catholics. The
Henry Institute, A Pre-Election Analysis
http://www.calvin.edu/henry/civic/CivicRespGrant/rel&08election.doc
Latinos
Catholics
constituted 6.8
percent of the survey
respondents. ^
About
68 percent of
traditionalist
Catholics
opposed gays
and lesbian
marriage, versus 50%
of centrist
Catholics
and 65
percent of
modernist
Catholics.
^
Traditionalist
Catholics disagreed that “abortion
should be legal and solely up to the woman to decide”
71 to 21 percent, centrist
Catholics agreed 54
to 40 percent, and
modernist
Catholics agreed 80-16
percent. ^
99%
of Protestant pastors
who hold to very conservative theology strongly disagree
that homosexual marriage should be
legal, with
98% also describing themselves as pro-life,
and of such 98 percent strongly
agree with the statement "Our
church considers Scripture to be the authority for our church
and our lives." Among pastors who do
not strongly disagree that
gay marriage should be legal, 71
percent said they agreed
with the above affirmation, as well as 65%
of pro-choice pastors
(three-fourths of all
Protestant pastors surveyed said they are pro-life).
LifeWay Research;
http://www.lifeway.com/ArticleView?storeId=10054&catalogId=10001&langId=-1&article=LifeWay-Research-protestant-pastors-share-views-on-gay-marriage-abortion
Evangelical
Protestants are
the most politically
conservative Christian tradition.
Within each tradition, those with literal
views of the Bible are
more politically
conservative than
is their tradition overall. Catholics
that are Biblical
literalists (11.8%)
hold more conservative
political views than the
Catholic population in general does. The Biblical
literalist Catholic
is as politically
conservative
as the Biblical
literalist who is
Evangelical
(47.8%)
or Mainline
Protestant. (11.2%) American
Piety in the 21st Century,
Baylor Institute
for Studies of Religion
http://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.php/33304.pdf
72%
of Catholics said that the will
of the American people should have
more influence than the Bible
on US law, as compared to 63%
of the general public. Pew Research Center,
"Pragmatic Americans Liberal and Conservative on Social
Issues," August 3, 2006,
http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/283.pdf (accessed June 24,
2008).
In
2011, 70% of [white?] evangelicals
considered themselves Republican
or leaned toward that party, versus 24%
Democrat.
http://www.pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/Trends-in-Party-Identification-of-Religious-Groups.aspx
48%
of Catholics considered themselves
Democrats or leaned toward that
party, 43% Republican
or leaned thereto. ^
47%
of white Catholics
identified with or leaned toward the Democratic
Party, while 46% supported the GOP
in the mid-September [2012] poll
[up from 41% in 2008],
while 72% of white
evangelicals identified with the
GOP.
http://www.pewforum.org/Race/Latinos-Religion-and-Campaign-2012.aspx#president
37%
of Catholics were registered as
Democrats [2007],
27% Republican,
and 31% as Independents. Aggregated
Pew Research Surveys, 2007.
http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=295#ideology
34%
of weekly Mass attending Catholics
are Democrats, and an additional
19% are not affiliated with a party
but lean toward the Democrats
(53% identifying or leaning as
Democrats). 28%
of weekly attenders are Republicans
and an additional 17% lean toward
being a Republican (43
percent identifying or leaning as Republicans). Thus
Democrats have a 10% point edge
among weekly attendees, Catholics
who attend Mass less than weekly
are even more likely to be a
Democrat rather than a Republican.
http://cara.georgetown.edu/NewsandPress/PressReleases/pr061808.pdf
91%
of faculty and administrators
from America’s top 23 Catholic
universities who contributed to presidential campaigns in
2012 gave to President Obama.
89.6%
of all 928 donors contributed to
Obama, versus 10.3%
who gave to Romney. Employees of
the Catholic schools contributed $449,229 to President Obama
while giving just $70,304 to Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Of
the 826 individuals who donated over $200 to the two major
candidates, 748 gave to President Obama’s campaign while
78 contributed to Romney. Based
on official Federal Election Commission data made available by
OpenSecrets.org; http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4529
Based
upon exit polling, 74 percent of
Evangelicals voted for McCain
in 2008, with 25 percent for Obama.
(Another measure which put the percentage of US evangelicals at
23 percent, with 73 percent
voting for McCain, 26 percent for
Obama.) http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=367
Catholics
overall supported Obama over McCain
by a nine-point margin (54% vs.
45%) ^
Exit
polls in 2008 reported that
weekly churchgoing Catholics
voted for John McCain over Barack
Obama, by just 50
percent to 49 percent.
Weekly Protestant church attendees
voted for McCain over Barack Obama
66 to 32
percent.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/churchgoing_catholics_chose_mccain_over_obama/
In
the 2012 election (preliminary
exit-poll analysis), white
Evangelicals (23% of the
electorate) voted 79%/20%
Romney/Obama;
Protestants overall (53% of the
electorate) voted 57%/42%;
black Protestants (9% of the electorate) and
other Christian voted 5%/95%;
Catholics overall (25% of the
electorate) voted 48%/50%; white
Catholics (18% of the electorate)
voted 59%/40%;
and Hispanic Catholics (5%
of the electorate) voted 21%/75%
Romney/Obama
http://www.pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/How-the-Faithful-Voted-2012-Preliminary-Exit-Poll-Analysis.aspx
Weekly
Church attendees (28% of the
electorate) voted 57%/39%
Romney/Obama;
more than weekly
(14% of the electorate) voted 63%/36%
and “never” attendees
(17% of the electorate) were at 34%/62%
Romney/Obama.
^
According
to Barna, in 2012 45%
of the people who voted in November indicated that their faith
affected how they voted. 72% of
Evangelicals, 34%
non-evangelical
born again
voters, and 19% of Catholics,
17% of non-Christian
faith said their faith affected their presidential preference a
lot. 9% of voters overall and 10%
of evangelicals felt strongly that
Mr. Romney's Mormon
connection diminished their likelihood of supporting him.
http://www.barna.org/culture-articles/595-the-role-of-faith-in-the-2012-election
Evangelicals
supported Mr. Romney 81%
to 17% over Mr. Obama
(a smaller percentage for the Republican
candidate than in previous years). Born again Christians who are
not evangelicals supported Romney
56% to 43%
over the incumbent. Catholics
supported Mr. Obama by 57%
to 42% — the largest margin
since Bill Clinton topped Bob Dole
by 21 points in 1996.
Protestant overall voted
57% to 42% in favor of Mr.
Romney. ^
Notional
Christians (the largest segment of
voters and who consider themselves to be Christian but are not
evangelical or born again) voted 57%
to 41% in favor of Mr. Obama.
68% of Skeptics and 69% of
non-Christian faiths (14% of total
voters) also voted for the Democratic candidate. ^
1%
of Evangelicals, 10% of
non-evangelical born again voters, 14%
of Notional Christians and 33% of
Skeptics said they were politically liberal. ^
48%
of voters overall, 54% of Notional
Christians, 53%
of Catholics, and just 14%
of Evangelicals agreed that the
United States will be better off four years from now than it is
today. 64% of voters overall said
they would prefer that the presidential campaign be decided by
the popular vote rather than
Electoral votes. ^
Ethnic
views section in particular
Latinos
make up about
40 percent
of all U.S.
Catholics (Pew
Research states 33%); 70
percent of Latinos
are Catholic;
23
percent
of Latinos
are Protestant
or “other
Christian;”
37 percent
of the U.S. Latino
population (14.2 million)
self-identifies as “born-again”
or evangelical
(26%
as born
again);
This figure includes Catholic
charismatics,
who constitute 22
percent of U.S. Latino
Catholics;
http://www.nhclc.org/news/latino-religion-us-demographic-shifts-and-trend
In
2007, 68%
of Latinos
identified as Catholics,
two-thirds
being immigrants.
42%
did not graduate
from high
school.
46%
have a household income
of less than
$30,000
per year - lower than that of other
religious traditions. The Latino
electorate
was overwhelmingly
Catholic
(63%),
and 70%
of all Latino
eligible voters
who identified as Democrats
were Catholics.
http://www.pewhispanic.org/2007/04/25/changing-faiths-latinos-and-the-transformation-of-american-religion/
15%
of Hispanics
overall identified themselves as
evangelicals.
64%
have at least a high
school
diploma,
and about 39%
have a household income
of less than $30,000
per year Among Hispanic
eligible voters
who were evangelicals,
37%
said they considered themselves
Republicans
and 32%
said they were Democrats.
http://www.pewforum.org/uploadedfiles/Topics/Demographics/hispanics-religion-07-final-mar08.pdf
Among
registered
voters
in 2007,
50%
of white
Evangelicals
and 36%
of Latino
Evangelicals
were Republican,
25%
of the former
and 36%
of the latter
were Democrats.
23%
white
Evangelical
and 19%
of Latino
Evangelicals
were Independents
http://www.pewforum.org/uploadedfiles/Topics/Demographics/hispanics-religion-07-final-mar08.pdf
70%
of Latino
registered
voters
in 2012
identify with or lean toward the
Democratic
Party, while
22%
identify with or lean toward the
Republican
Party. 81
percent of
Latinos
with no
religious affiliation were
Democrats
or
Democratic
leaning.
http://www.pewforum.org/Race/Latinos-Religion-and-Campaign-2012.aspx#president
73%
of Latino Catholics
surveyed said they favored Obama,
versus 19% for Romney,
while 50% of Latino
evangelical Protestants (who
accounted for 16% of all Latino registered voters) favored
Obama, and 39%
were for Romney.
http://www.pewforum.org/Race/Latinos-Religion-and-Campaign-2012.aspx
Latino
Catholics made up
57% of the Latin electorate
in 2012, and
71% are Democrats or
lean toward the Democratic
Party, while 21% identify with
or lean toward the Republican
Party. Among Latino
evangelical voters, about half
are Democrats or lean
Democratic, while about a third
are Republicans or lean toward
the Republican Party.
http://www.pewforum.org/Race/Latinos-Religion-and-Campaign-2012.aspx
White,
non-Hispanic Catholics
express about as much support
for same-sex marriage as
Hispanic Catholics
do (53% and 54%,
respectively). White
evangelical Protestants are
somewhat more opposed to gay
marriage (76%)
than are Hispanic evangelical
Protestants (66%). ^
Latino
Evangelicals are 50%
more likely than those who are Catholics
to identify with the Republican
Party, and are significantly
more conservative than
Catholics on social
issues, foreign
policy issues and even in
their attitudes toward the plight
of the poor.
http://pewforum.org/surveys/hispanic
54%
of Hispanic Catholics
believe that churches and other places of worship should be
required to provide health
care coverage that includes
contraception, compared to 41%
Hispanic Protestants.
African American & Hispanic
Reproductive Issues Survey by the Public Religion Research
Institute, July 2012
80%
of religiously unaffiliated
Hispanics, and 62%
of Hispanic Catholics,
and 47% of Hispanic
mainline Protestants
support allowing gay and lesbian
couples to marry,
versus 21% of evangelical
Protestants (79% oppose
same-sex
marriage).http://publicreligion.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Catholics-and-LGBT-Issues-Survey-Report.pdf
52%
of Hispanic Catholics
say abortion should be illegal
in all or most cases, along with 63%
of Evangelical Protestants.
https://www.prri.org/research/legal-in-most-cases-the-impact-of-the-abortion-debate-in-2019-america/
30%
of Hispanic Catholics
say that having an abortion is
morally wrong, compared to 7%
who say it is morally acceptable.
nearly 59% of evangelical
Protestants say that having an
abortion is morally wrong,
compared to only 4% who say it
is morally acceptable.
https://www.pewforum.org/2007/04/25/changing-faiths-latinos-and-the-transformation-of-american-religion-2
(?)
45%
of Hispanic Catholics
and 51% of mainline
Protestants say that
sexual relations between two adults of the same
gender is morally wrong,
compared to 16% of Catholics
and 19% of mainline
Protestants who say it is
morally acceptable.10%
of Hispanic Catholics
and 4% of mainline
Protestants believe the
morality of same gender sexual activity depends on the
situation, and
27% of Catholics and
23% of mainline Protestants
say it is not a moral
issue. ^
72%
of evangelical Protestants say that sexual
relations between two adults of the
same gender is morally wrong, while 8% say it is
morally acceptable.
6% say that the morality of the behavior depends on
the situation and 14%
say that it is not a moral
issue. ^
51%
of Hispanic Catholics
and mainline Protestants
say that it is possible to disagree with church teachings
on homosexuality and remain a
good Catholic or Christian, versus 70%
of evangelical Hispanic
Protestants who say it is not
possible to disagree with church teachings on the issue of
homosexuality and remain a
good Christian. ^
12%
of Hispanic Catholics,
and 22% of Hispanic
mainline Protestants
and 50% of Hispanic
evangelicals report that
religion is the most important thing in their lives. ^
Catholics
and mainline Protestants
do not differ in the frequency of their religious
attendance from Hispanics overall, while evangelical
Protestants are significantly
more likely to attend religious services regularly.
5%
of Hispanics report that they
do not believe
in God.
Hispanic Catholics
closely resemble Hispanics
overall, with 59% believing
God is a person
and 32% believing God
is an impersonal force. 69%
of Mainline Protestants
believe God is a person
25% believe God is an
impersonal force (25%).
85% of Hispanic evangelical
Protestants believe God is a
person with whom one can have
a relationship.
^
Black
Catholics constituted 5%
of the Catholic church (highly
predominantly from the West at 11%, versus 4-6% elsewhere)
in 2007, and 15%
of evangelicals (based on
denomination, and spread fairly evenly, even in the NE at
16%, but lowest in the West at 11%).
http://www.pewforum.org/A-Religious-Portrait-of-African-Americans.aspx
Blacks
constituted 13% of the
electorate in 2012.
http://www.resurgentrepublic.com/research/2012-the-year-changing-demographics-caught-up-with-republicans
77
percent of Black Protestants
said they vote Democratic,
whether they attended weekly services or not. 2008
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public
Life.
For
those in black Catholic churches,
political affiliation or
leaning in 2007 was 17%/74%
Republican/Democrat,
and 11%/76% for black
evangelical churches.
Opposition to homosexuality
37% by black Catholics
and 58% by black
evangelicals. Opposition
to abortion was 35%
by black Catholics
and 53% by black
evangelicals. 66%
of black evangelicals
and 36% of black
Catholics say they attend
services at least weekly.
http://www.pewforum.org/A-Religious-Portrait-of-African-Americans.aspx
22%
of Asian-Americans are
Protestants and 19% are
Catholic (while 26% are
unaffiliated, with 52% of
Chinese being so).
.http://www.pewforum.org/Asian-Americans-A-Mosaic-of-Faiths-overview.aspx
47%
of Asian-American Protestants
are or lean toward the Republican
party, versus 36% Democrat.
Asian-American evangelicals
were at 56%/28%.
Asian-American Catholics were at 42%/41%
(Hindu Asian-Americans
9%/72% Republican/Democrat).
^
76%
of Asian-American
evangelical
Protestants
go to services
at least once a week,
followed by Catholics
at 60%.
Opposition to abortion
and homosexuality
is likewise higher
among the former.
^
|
71%
of Evangelicals, 35%
of Protestants and
25% of Catholics said that a
candidates position on abortion
would have a lot of influence on
their decision of who to vote
for in 2012. Likewise 63%
of evangelicals, 35%
of Protestants and 19%
of Catholics and said a candidates
position on homosexual marriage
would have a lot of influence on their decision. Barna,
April, 2011
http://www.barna.org/transformation-articles/482-voters-most-interested-in-issues-concerning-security-and-comfort-least-interested-in-moral-issues
73%
of Catholics polled say they
believe Catholic politicians are
under no religious obligation
to vote on issues the way the
bishops recommend,
with 75% disapproving
of denying communion
to Catholics who support
legal abortion, while 70%
of Catholics say that the views of
Catholic bishops in the US are
unimportant to them in deciding for
whom to vote, and 69%
of say they feel no obligation to
vote against
candidates who support abortion.
Belden Russonello & Stewart, "Secular
and Security-Minded: The Catholic Vote in Summer 2008,"
Catholics for Choice, July 2008.
http://www.catholicvote.net/page7/page22/page22.html
According
to a February, 2011 Pew forum
survey, 44% of white
evangelical Protestants agree
with the Tea Party movement, with
only 8% disagreeing,
while 33% of white
Catholics agree
and 23% disagree.
Only 12% of atheists/agnostics
support it with 67%
opposing.
http://pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/Tea-Party-and-Religion.aspx
In
2011, 70%
of white evangelicals
favored the GOP (up from 65%
in 2004), compared with 24%
who favored the Democratic Party.
By
2011 the number of mainline
Protestants favoring the Republican
Party had jumped by six
points to 51%, and Democratic
support had dropped by six
points to 39%.
White mainline Protestants
are now 12 points more likely to
express support for the GOP
than for the Democratic Party.
49%
white Catholics
in 2008 supported for the
Democratic Party and
41% identified as Republican
or said they leaned toward the GOP.
By 2011, the figures were reversed,
42% expressed support for Democrats
and 49% for Republicans.
White
evangelicals under 30
are now more heavily Republican
than those over 30 (82%
vs. 69%). And among white
non-Hispanic Catholics under age
30, support for the GOP
has increased from 41% in 2008
to 54% in 2011.
In
2011, all basic groups (all
Catholic, Protestants,
Mormons, Jewish,
atheist/agnostic) showed increased
support for Republicans.
Religiously
unaffiliated voters - the fastest
growing block - 61% identified with
or leaned toward the Democratic
Party, versus 27% for Republicans.
-
http://www.pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/Trends-in-Party-Identification-of-Religious-Groups-affiliation.aspx
65%
of Catholics supported a
tax increase for the wealthiest
Americans in 2006, up from 52
percent in 2002.
Majorities of Catholics support issues traditionally considered
planks of the Democratic Party
platform: universal healthcare,
pro-labor policies, access to
abortion, and social
welfare programs for the poor.
http://cara.georgetown.edu/NewsandPress/PressReleases/pr061808.pdf
10%
of Evangelical Protestants
reside in the NE, 23%
in the Midwest, 50%
in the South, and 17%
in the West. Catholics:
29% NE,
24% Midwest,
24% in the South,
23% in the West.
“Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly
Mainstream,” Pew Research Center, 2007.
http://religions.pewforum.org/comparisons#
The
population of Massachusetts ranks
as the most liberal, with Boston
and Cambridge being the most
liberal large cities (100,000
or more), followed by California.
http://www.epodunk.com/top10/liberal/index.html
The
16 most Catholic
states contain 24 of the
most liberal cities. Excluding
(Maryland 26th), predominately
Roman Catholic states contain all
but one (Seattle WA) of the 30 most
liberal cities.
Of states in which S. Baptists are
the single largest denomination
none (of the 30
cities) were found. (the term “liberal”
being defined according to individual contributions to PACs,
election returns and the number of homosexual households:
http://www.epodunk.com/top10/liberal/index.html
http://www.glenmary.org/grc/RCMS_2000/Catholic_findings.htm
, http://www.adherents.com/rel_USA.html.
The
highest
percentages
of
residents who describe themselves as
Christian
are
typically in the
South,
including: Shreveport, LA (98%), Birmingham (96%), Charlotte
(96%), Nashville (95%), Greenville, SC / Asheville, NC (94%),
New Orleans (94%), Indianapolis (93%), Lexington (93%),
Roanoke-Lynchburg (93%), Little Rock (92%), and Memphis (92%).
http://www.barna.org/faith-spirituality/435-diversity-of-faith-in-various-us-cities
73%
of the populations of Charlotte
and Shreveport held scripture in
high regard, versus only 27% of the
residents of Providence, Rhode
Island [the most Catholic state] and San
Francisco [the most homosexual large city]. ^
The
lowest percentages
of self-identified Christians
inhabited the following markets: San Francisco (68%), Portland,
Oregon (71%), Portland, Maine (72%), Seattle (73%), Sacramento
(73%), New York (73%), San Diego (75%), Los Angeles (75%),
Boston (76%), Phoenix (78%), Miami (78%), Las Vegas (78%), and
Denver (78%). Even in these cities, however, roughly three out
of every four residents align with Christianity. ^
The
highest percentage
of souls who tended toward being atheist
or agnostic were in Portland, Maine
(19%), Seattle (19%), Portland, Oregon (16%), Sacramento (16%),
and Spokane (16%)
Commitment
to evangelism (agree strongly that
a person has a responsibility to share their beliefs with
others) saw the greatest percentage
of endorsement by residents of
Birmingham (64%) and Charlotte (54%), in contrast to residents
of Providence (14%) and Boston (17%).
(See
HERE
for
a table on Religious-Political relations. And HERE
for
correlations between faith, ideology, politics, environment,
money.) And HERE
for
supplementary compilation of stats on moral positions related to
numerical impact, and Whites, Latinos and African Americans. TOC
DEMOGRAPHICS,
GROWTH, CONVERSIONS, ETC,
31%
of
Catholics
made less than
$30,000
per year (2008),
while 19%
made $100,000
or more (National average:
31%
and 18%
respectively). The figures for
Evangelical
Protestants were
34%
and 13%
respectively.
Hindus
and Jews
had the highest income levels.
http://pewforum.org/Income-Distribution-Within-US-Religious-Groups.aspx
Evangelical
Churches (17%), had the lowest
percentage of souls aged 18-29,
versus Unaffiliated (31%), Muslims
(29%), Historically Black Churches
(24%), Mormons (24%)
and Other Faiths (24%). Mainline
Churches had the greater percentage
(23%) of souls 65
and older. U.S. Religious landscape survey;
Copyright © 2008 The Pew Forum on Religion & Public
Life. http://religions.pewforum.org/comparisons#
A
Catholic study in the year 2000
reported that of the 17 religious bodies
in America with 1 million or more
adherents in 2000, only six
showed an increase in numbers while
10 showed a decline in numbers. Glenmary
Research Centers.
3.5http://www.glenmary.org/grc/RCMS_2000/Catholic_findings.htm
Among
the gainers, four
religious bodies showed double-digit increases-- between 16
percent for Catholics and 19
percent for Latter-Day Saints (Mormons).
The Southern Baptist Convention
grew at nearly 5 percent. ^
Except
for Catholics (which grew between
1990 and 2000
mainly by immigration), all those
bodies gaining members between 1990 and
2000 generally are considered “Conservative
Protestants,” while most of those showing a
decrease in number of adherents
generally are considered “Moderate”
or “Liberal” Protestants.
^
In
every state, the percent Catholic
growth from 1990
to 2000 was substantially greater than the general
population growth [including a 45 percent
increase in Arkansas and 111
percent increase in Nevada.]
^
The
Catholic population of the US had
fallen by nearly 400,000 in 2007,
and suffered a slight membership loss in 2009
but increased 1.49 percent in 2010.
[U.S. population growth rate in 2008 was 0.9 percent, and 0.57
percent in 2011.]. From 2007 to
2008 Roman
Catholics grew from 17.33
percent of the global population to 17.4
percent in 2008.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=5753
http://www.ncccusa.org/news/100204yearbook2010.html;
http://www.ncccusa.org/news/110210yearbook2011.html
2002
Statistics
compiled by the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for
Hispanic
Affairs
reported that
71
percent of
the U.S. Catholic
population
growth
since
1960
was
due to
Hispanics.
The statistics are taken from U.S. Census reports and recent
surveys of Hispanics.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_15_36/ai_59607715/pg_3/
In
2008, 25:1% of
respondents self-identified themselves as Catholic
(versus 26.2 in
1990),
with
50.9
belonging
to
Other
Christian groups
(from
60%
in
1990).
http://www.americanreligionsurvey-aris.org/reports/ARIS_Report_2008.pdf
The
total number baptized Catholic
individuals recognized by each
parish and mission
in the United States was 58.9 million.
http://www.glenmary.org/rcms2010/
Note various ways of
tabulation: http://www.glenmary.org/rcms-appendix/
According
to the American Bishops'
count in their Official Catholic Directory 2010,
which primarily rests on the parish assessment tax which pastors
evaluate yearly according to the number of registered members
and contributors, Catholics
in the United States
represented 22%
of the US population.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_the_United_States#cite_ref-0
24%
of current “Nones”
(not identifying with any
religion) and 35%
of 1st generation or "new"
Nones) identified themselves being Catholic
at age 12,
11%
identified themselves as
"Christian,"
7%
as Baptist,
and 3%
as Protestant.
2008
American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS);
http://commons.trincoll.edu/aris/files/2011/08/ARIS_Report_2008.pdf
http://commons.trincoll.edu/aris/files/2011/08/NONES_08.pdf
A
2010
report
show the Church
of God (Cleveland,
Tenn.) - ranked 24th
largest
- increased 1.76
percent,
and the Assemblies
of God
(9th)
grew 1.27
percent.
The (so-called) “Latter-day
Saints”
[cult]
(ranked 4th
largest)
grew 1.71
percent,
the (so-called) Jehovah's Witnesses [cult]
(23rd
)
said they were up 2
percent
http://www.ncccusa.org/news/100204yearbook2010.html
The
Presbyterian Church (USA) shrank
3.3 percent Southern
Baptist Convention, the largest denomination after
Catholics, lost 0.24
percent of its membership and now stands at 16.2 million.
It also declined in membership in the year prior.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/catholic_church_shows_robust_growth_in_u.s._membership_new_report_says/
Between
2000
and 2004,
the net gain (the number of new churches minus the closed
churches) in the number of evangelical churches was 5,452,
but mainline
and Catholic
churches
closed more than they started
for a net
loss of 2,200,
while a net gain
of 13,024
churches was necessary to keep up with the U.S.
population growth.
At those rates, by 2050,
the percentage of the U.S. population attending
church
will be almost half
of what it was in 1990.
http://www.churchleaders.com/pastors/pastor-articles/139575-7-startling-facts-an-up-close-look-at-church-attendance-in-america.html
In
numbers (not percentage),
Catholicism, which lists 68.1
million in the US, has experienced “the greatest net loss”
of any major religious group. members.
The 'had it' Catholics,” National Catholic
Reporter ,Oct. 11, 2001, based on reports from the 2008 Pew
Forum on Religion & Public Life survey and the National
Council of Churches’ 2010 Yearbook of American and
Canadian Churches.
68%
of
those raised
Roman
Catholic
still
are Catholic (higher than the retention rates of individual
Protestant denoms, but less than Jews
at
76%).
15%
are
now Protestant
(9%
evangelical);
14%
are
unaffiliated.
Pew
forum, Faith in Flux (April 27,
2009);https://www.pewforum.org/2009/04/27/faith-in-flux3">https://www.pewforum.org/2009/04/27/faith-in-flux3
80%
of adults who were raised
Protestant are still Protestant,
but (analysis shows) 25% no longer
self-identify with the Protestant
denomination in which they were raised.
^
44
percent of Americans have switched
religious affiliations since
childhood, mostly mainline
Protestants. 7%
who were raised Protestant
are now unaffiliated; 15% now
belong to a different Protestant
faith. ^
51%
of Protestants from a different
Protestant denomination
cite a lack of spiritual fulfillment
as a reason for leaving
their childhood faith. 85% say they
joined their current denominational
faith because they enjoy
the services and style of worship.
Only 15% left say they left
because they stopped believing in
its teachings. ^
Those
who have left Catholicism outnumber
those who have joined the Catholic
Church by nearly a four-to-one margin.
10.1% have left the Catholic Church
after having been raised Catholic, while
only 2.6% of
adults have become Catholic after
having been raised in a
different faith.^
4%
of Americans raised Catholic are
now unaffiliated; 5%
are now Protestant. ^
Over
75% of those who left Catholicism
attended Mass at least once a week
as children, versus 86%
having done so who remain Catholics today.^
Regarding
reasons for leaving Catholicism,
less than 30% of former
Catholics agreed that the clergy
sexual abuse scandal played a role in their departure. ^
71%
of converts from Catholicism to
Protestant faith said that their
spiritual needs were not
being met in Catholicism,
with 78% of Evangelical
Protestants in particular concurring, versus
43% of those now unaffiliated.
^
Only
23% (20%
now evangelical) of all Protestants
converts from Catholicism said they
were unhappy about Catholicism's
teachings on abortion/homosexuality
(versus 46% of those now
unaffiliated); 23%
also expressed disagreement with teaching on divorce/remarriage;
16% (12% now evangelical)
were dissatisfied with teachings on birth
control, 70% said they found
a religion they liked more in
Protestantism.
55%
of evangelical converts from
Catholicism cited dissatisfaction
with Catholic teachings about the
Bible was a reason for leaving
Catholicism, with 46%
saying the Catholic Church did not
view the Bible literally
enough.
81%
of all Protestant converts from
Catholicism said they enjoyed the
service and worship of Protestant faith
as a reason for joining a Protestant
denomination, with 62% of all
Protestants and 74% Evangelicals
also saying that they felt God's call to
do so. ^
42%
of those now unaffiliated stated
they do not believe in God, or most
religious teaching. ^
54%
of “millennial generation” Catholics
(born in 1982 or later) are
Hispanics, while 39%
are non-Hispanic whites. On the
other hand, 76% of “pre-Vatican
II generation” Catholics (born 1943 or earlier) are
non-Hispanic whites, while 15%
are Hispanics. Center
for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown
University, September, 2010 .
http://www.osv.com/tabid/7621/itemid/6850/Openers-More-evidence-of-the-browning-of-US-Cat.aspx
68%
of
all
Latinos
in
the U.S. identify as
Catholics.
Changing
Faiths: Latinos and the Transformation of American Religion
http://pewforum.org/Changing-Faiths-Latinos-and-the-Transformation-of-American-Religion.aspx
Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion - American Piety in the
21 Century – 9-2006
http://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.php/33304.pdf
Among
Catholics under
the age of 30,
47% are white,
and 45% are Latino.
In contrast, among Catholics over
the age of 65, 82% are white (Pew Forum 2007,
reported in
http://publicreligion.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Catholics-and-LGBT-Issues-Survey-Report.pdf)
Latinos
comprised 32 percent of all U.S.
Catholics in 2008, versus to 20
percent in 1990. However,
Catholic identification has slipped from 66
percent in 1990 to 60
percent in 2008. There has
also been a significant rise in the number of Latinos
who do not adhere to a religion. The longer a Latino
has lived in the United States, the less likely he or she is to
be Catholic. Study of Secularism in Society and
Culture at Trinity College,
http://theamericano.com/2010/03/18/new-report-on-u-s-latino-religious-identification/
18%
of
all
Latinos
say
they have either
converted
from
one religion to another or to
no
religion
at
all.
http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/75.4.pdf
1,000
Mexicans left the Catholic
Church every day between 2000 and
2010, a decline
that has continued uninterrupted
over the past 60 years, from 98.21
of the population to 83.9 percent
today. Latin American Herald Tribune, March 10,
2011, based upon census data and study by sociologist and
historian Roberto Blancarte of Colegio de Mexico and the
National Autonomous University of Mexico
The
percentage of of Protestants
and
Evangelicals
rose
from
1.28%
in 1950
to
close to
8%
of
the total population in 2010,
(excluding
so-called Jehovah’s
Witnesses
or
Mormons).
5.2
million
say
they profess no
religion.
^
This
decline is seen as extending across
the region (Catholics represent between 55%
to 73% in Central
America, 70% in Brazil,
50% in Cuba
and Uruguay).^
Brazil’s
National Statistics Institute reported that the number of
evangelical Christians
in Brazil (the world’s largest Catholic country) has risen
from 15% of the population in 2000
to to 22% of the population in
2010, and 4%
40 years ago, while the proportion
of Catholic Brazilians
fell from 93.% of Brazilians 40
years ago, and 74% of the
population in 2000 to to
65% in 2010.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/29/ratio-of-evangelicals-in-brazil-jumps-44-in-10-years/
Almost
20%
of
all
Latino
American
Catholics
have
left
the
Roman
Catholicism,
with
23
percent
of
second-generation
Latino
Americans doing so.
http://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.php/33304.pdf
54%
of
Hispanic
Catholics
describe
themselves as
charismatic
Christians.
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=75
51%
of Hispanic Evangelicals are
converts, and 43%
are former Catholics. ^
82%
of Hispanics cite the desire for a
more direct, personal experience with God
as the main reason for adopting a new faith. Among those who
have become evangelicals, 90% say
it was a spiritual search for a
more direct, personal experience with God
was the main reason that drove their conversion. Negative
views of Catholicism do not
appear to be a major reason for their conversion. ^
Latino
evangelicals are more than 20
percentage points more likely than Catholics
to say that abortion should be
illegal in most or all
circumstances.
http://www.nhclc.org/news/latino-religion-us-demographic-shifts-and-trend
The
first generation of Latino
immigrants is 74
percent Catholic, and 15 percent
Protestant. The second generation is 72
percent Catholic, and 20 percent
Protestant. The third generation is 62
percent Catholic, and 29 percent
Protestant. ^
According
to the Census Bureau, the Latino
population in the United States grew from 22.4
million in 1990 to 41.3
million in 2004,
adding a staggering 18.9 million people
in 10 years. Broader estimates,
which include Puerto Rican
islanders (4 million) and
undocumented immigrants
(5 million), put the U.S.
Latino population at over 50
million. ^
In
2003, Latinos
surpassed African-Americans as the
largest minority
group in the United States. Latinos
now represent about 14 percent of
the U.S. population. This growth is
a result of both immigration and high domestic birth rates.
About 53 percent of all immigrants
to the United States come from
Latin America. Mexicans and
Mexican-Americans make up 58
percent of all foreign born
Latin-American immigrants.
^
Globally
98% of evangelical
leaders agree that the
Bible is the word of God. Only
3% believe that human life has
evolved with no involvement
from a supreme being, and 47%
reject theistic evolution,
while 41% believe God has used
evolution for the purpose of
creating humans and other life.
http://www.pewforum.org/2011/06/22/global-survey-of-evangelical-protestant-leaders/
51%
do not see influence of
Catholicism as a threat,
while 35% see it as a minor
threat, and 10% see it as a
major one. 92%
express favorable opinions of
Pentecostals, and 76%
express favorable
opinions of Catholics. 7%
say they consider non-religious
people to be friendly toward
evangelicals, and
35% say they have a very unfavorable
opinion of atheists, with
35%saying mostly
unfavorable. ^
41%
say that conflict between
religious groups is a small
problem, while 17% say it is a
very big problem, with 30%
seeing theological divisions
among evangelical as one (54%
as a minor threat), and 77%
also see evangelical
leaders displaying lavish
lifestyles as a threat (30%
major, 47% minor). ^
Evangelical
leaders in the Middle
East and North
Africa are most likely to say
religious conflict is a
moderately big (37%)
or very big (35%)
problem. 55% of those in the
Asia-Pacific region and 49%
in sub-Saharan Africa also see
inter- religious conflict as a moderately or very big
problem. 90% who live in
Muslim-majority countries say the influence of Islam
is a major threat, compared with 41%
of elsewhere. ^
73%
of evangelical leaders worldwide affirm that God’s
covenant with the Jewish
people continues today, and
60% hold mostly favorable
views of Jews, though 33%
think that Jews are unfriendly
toward evangelicals. 48% say
the state of Israel is a
fulfillment of biblical
prophecy about the Second
Coming of Jesus, while 42% say
it is not, and 49%
say they sympathize with both
Israel and the Palestinians
equally. ^
33%
describe themselves as Pentecostals,
versus 14% of leaders from the
Global North. 76%
say they have experienced or witnessed a divine
healing, and 70%
of those from the Global South
say they have witnessed the devil
or evil spirits being driven
out. ^
90%
reject the so-called prosperity
gospel, the notion that God
will grant wealth and good health to those who have enough
faith. 52% (75%
in the “Global South”)
believe drinking alcohol
is incompatible with being a
good evangelical,
97% likewise reject astrology,
96% reject reincarnation,
95% reject denying
Jesus is the only way to
salvation, 92% reject yoga.
^
96%
disapprove
of abortion at least conditionally,
with 51%
(59%
in
the “Global South,” including Africa)
affirming that abortion
is
always wrong,
with 45%
saying
it is usually
wrong.
84%
say
that society should discourage homosexuality,
and 79%
say
that men should serve as the religious leaders
in
the marriage and family, and
71%
of
the leaders are male,
yet 75%
think
that women
may
be allowed to serve as pastors.
(in contrast
to historical Protestantism). ^
84%
think that religious
leaders should express their
views on political
matters, with just 13%
disagreeing. 48%
oppose making the Bible
the law of the land, while
45% favor it. However,
74% vs. 21%
of evangelical leaders surveyed said it is acceptable
to them if their country’s
political
leaders have a different
religion than their own. ^
58%
in
the Global South
say
that evangelical Christians are gaining
influence
on
life in their countries. By contrast, 66%
in
the Global North
(82%
say
in the United
States)
say that evangelicals are losing
influence
in
the societies in which they live. ^
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