Monday, June 27, 2016

The Times, They Are A’Changin’: New Poll Shows Evangelical Voters Acknowledge Cultural Change – But Continue To Resist It

White evangelicals no longer believe that the United States is a Christian country, according to a new Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) survey. The survey, which was conducted in conjunction with the Brookings Institution, shows that 59 percent of white evangelicals believe that the country has moved away from its “Judeo-Christian” roots.

That’s a change from previous years. PRRI reports that in 2012, most white evangelicals still believed that America is now, and had always been, a Christian nation.

 As Americans United has explained repeatedly, the United States was not founded to be an officially Christian nation. But the insistence that it was – against all evidence – has been a hallmark of conservative evangelicals for decades....
https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/the-times-they-are-a-changin-new-poll-shows-evangelical-voters-acknowledge


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