Wednesday, January 10, 2024

America's amusing smorgasbord of religious, social, and political beliefs according to Real Clear, ranked, annotated

Percent who believe in, believe that, say that, are, et cetera, per Real Clear Opinion Research, here:

 

Religious freedom is a fundamental human right 93.8 (this idea was foreign to ancient Israel, Greece, Rome, Christian Europe, and the era of the Muslim conquests, to name just a few)
 
God 85.4 (name not indicated)
Heaven 84.7 (John Lennon most hurt)
Healthcare is a fundamental human right 83.7 (the propaganda of the ObamaCare era worked)
Miracles 83.0 (Justin Amash fooled the people 5 times, Peter Meijer only once)
"In God We Trust" 83.0 ("In Fiat Money We Trust" was too long)
Jesus is God or Son of God 80.3 (thanks to not being aborted by the Holy Virgin Mary)
 
Hell 72.4 (San Francisco, New York City, Portland, et cetera)
The Devil 70.3 (yeah baby, drugs, sex, and rock and roll)
 
A woman and her doctor should get to decide whether to have an abortion 63.4 (vaccination highly recommended)
Ghosts 61.4 (unstated whether they are tiny baby ghosts or not)
 
Aliens 56.9 (oddly explains the southern border)
God is male 50.0 (Jesus is shocked, shocked, I tell you)
 
Reincarnation 47.7 (belief in Hinduism is dead last 0.5% ha ha ha ha ha, see below)
Witches 45.8 (strongly believed in Michigan methinks)
Prejudice against Jews is a very serious problem in the US 42.6 (because the Jews run everything)
 
2020 Joe Biden 38.6 (voting by mail multiple times or in person not specified)
Protestant 36.3 (prejudice problem 17.3)
2020 Donald Trump 34.6 (not everything deserves a comment)
Democrat Party 33.6
Republican Party 32.8
 
Never attend religious service 29.2 (makes sense given these results)
Prejudice against Muslims is a very serious problem in the US 29.1 (because of what they did on Oct 7)
God is neither male nor female 27.5 (0.9% of respondents also neither male nor female)
2020 didn't vote 24.8 (thank God) 
Catholic 22.0 (prejudice problem 14.9)
Independent party 21.4
 
Attend religious service once a week 19.5 (as good as it gets for category)
No religion 19.4
Prejudice against Evangelical Christians is a very serious problem in the US 17.3
Prejudice against Hindus is a very serious problem in the US 16.2 (but, but reincarnation)
Prejudice against atheists is a very serious problem in the US 15.7
Prejudice against Catholics is a very serious problem in the US 14.9
God is female 14.1
Not registered to vote 12.1

Atheist 3.8 (prejudice problem 15.7)
Agnostic 3.7
Other religion 3.3
Islamic 3.2 (prejudice problem 29.1)
Mormon 2.9
2020 voted for other 2.0
Judaism 1.9 (prejudice problem 42.6)
Buddhist 1.6
Orthodox 1.3 (Rod Dreher)
Hindu 0.5 (prejudice problem 16.2)
 
People clearly believe that some groups, to paraphrase Barack Obama in 2012 about the Danes, the Dutch, the Norwegians, the Irish, and the Filipinos, seem to get punched far out of proportion with their weight in the culture. 
 
Results discussed here, where this is surely wrong, leaving out the little word "not" in a crucial spot at the end:

Most Americans also remain deeply respectful of the country’s religious roots. A strong majority of respondents – 83% – believe the phrase “In God we trust” should remain on U.S. currency and coins, compared to 17% who back the phrase’s removal.

“Republicans felt more strongly that the phrase should remain compared to Democrats, with 91% believing the phrase should [not] be removed, compared to 78% of Democrats,” Kimball said.     

In 2011 former Republican Justin Amash (MI-3) joined eight Democrats to vote against "In God We Trust", which in his first term was a sign of things to come in his last.