Religion Is “Very Important” to 6 in 10 Americans

ephant · Post by **ephant** » 2004-06-29 02:07am

back to the subject at hand *cough*

The poll seems extremely limited and it seems understandable to me why 60% of people answered like that.

Although I see little evidence of people who actually believe that religion can answer all of today's problems but if faced with a choice of that or "Old fashioned and out of date" I think many of the fencesitters would go for the religion answer.

I think the poll sucks. If they had some in between answers then I think it would have had a very different result.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-06-29 03:02am

I actualy expected the number to be higher than 60 %. The poll does not appear to be very accurate. It seems to only cover Christian. They are ignoring other religious groups.

Son of the Suns · Post by **Son of the Suns** » 2004-06-29 03:06am

Many people will answer that they are a Christian when asked, even when they don't actually practice the religion, simply because it is expected, IMHO.

jenat-lai · Post by **jenat-lai** » 2004-06-29 03:16am

Some people actually practice the religion because it's expected also. *waves*