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Related: About this forumStudy: Jews Most Popular Religious Group in the U.S.
Respondents to a Pew survey gave Judaism the "warmest, most positive" rating on a scale of 1 to 100
12:22 PM ET
Sam Frizell
Jews are viewed most positively by Americans among the major religious groups, according to a survey released Wednesday.
The Pew survey asked participants to rate their attitude toward different religious groups on a feeling thermometer on a scale of 0 to 100 with 100 being the warmest, most positive rating. The 3,217 respondents rated Jews, Catholics and Evangelical Christians scores of 63, 62, and 61, respectively.
On the other end of the spectrum, Muslims were rated least favorably, with a score of 40. Atheists were rated a step higher with a score of 41. Buddhists, Hindus and Mormons were in the middle, with ratings of 53, 50 and 48, respectively.
Unsurprisingly, groups were rated highest by their own members, with Catholics receiving an average rating of 80 from Americans who describe themselves as Catholic, for instance.
http://time.com/2992611/study-jews-most-popular-religious-group-in-the-u-s/
http://www.pewforum.org/2014/07/16/how-americans-feel-about-religious-groups/
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)There are interesting findings.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Hence my question; who asked?
rug
(82,333 posts)Which in turn is ultimately a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Election campaigns are more likely to commission polls.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)How about a hate thermometer, would be more informative?
"Jews and Atheists tend to have negative feelings towards Evangelicals, even though Evangelicals rated Jews highly."
Talk about dividing up the nation, the media is leading that division.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)or Mormons or Orthodox Christians.
rug
(82,333 posts)No Vested Interest
(5,166 posts)Stated in the details by Pew are that the margin of error is 2.2 for the total number of ca 3700+.
TlalocW
(15,382 posts)Some of my best gigs balloon twisting was at the Tulsa Temple especially on Purim. I was made to feel very welcome, and they wrapped up a bunch of Hamantashen pastries for me to take home. The Rabbi was a woman, and she was watching me twist, and when one kid asked me to make a Cartman from South Park, she exclaimed, "Cartman? Get Kyle! He's the Jew!"
TlalocW
longship
(40,416 posts)MellowDem
(5,018 posts)It also shows that the Democratic Party is generally just a moderate Republican Party. The order of views doesn't change much between the two, just the extremity of those views.
This country is still very conservative. And progressives have no party, much less atheists. Just a lesser of two evils.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)Last time I saw comparable data, atheists were at the bottom and I thought the overall negative was much greater.
There is some really interesting data in the actual report. Definitely worth perusing, but I would like to see some comparison to earlier data.