Americans to religious organisations: Stay out of politics
RNS As Americans gear up for a long and bitterly contentious presidential election year, their message to religious leaders and institutions couldn’t be clearer: Keep out. That’s the finding in the latest Pew Research poll, which found that 63 per cent of Americans say churches and other houses of worship should stay out of politics, and […]
How partisanship drives religious attitudes, and not the other way around
RNS Which comes first, religion or politics? On the one hand, political scientists have long held that people’s political choices are formed by their childhood faith, which, for the most part, sticks with them. On the other, 81 per cent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump, a thrice-married adulterer who rarely attends church. PICTURE: […]