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TexasProgresive

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Thu Jan 1, 2015, 10:00 AM Jan 2015

American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us-Pew study

This is from a study done in 2006. Has this been discussed? I have only scanned the transcript this morning.

December 16, 2010
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us

The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life held a press luncheon with political science professors David Campbell and John Green on the topic of how religion both divides and unites Americans.
http://www.pewforum.org/2010/12/16/american-grace-how-religion-divides-and-unites-us/
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American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us-Pew study (Original Post) TexasProgresive Jan 2015 OP
Intriguing in several ways carolinayellowdog Jan 2015 #1

carolinayellowdog

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1. Intriguing in several ways
Thu Jan 1, 2015, 11:31 PM
Jan 2015

A quick read left me impressed by several points that were not intuitively obvious. A couple that leapt out: 1) Republicans have been disastrous for Evangelical Protestantism in this country, among the young especially. The boost that Reagan and the Bushes got from this demographic was ultimately a selling of the evangelical soul to a political devil. 2) Mormons are more discriminated against than unbelievers, or more disapproved in our society, as are Buddhists.

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