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Swing Voters Dislike Religious Campaigning Most of All
Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has been marked by a shameless use of organized religion as a campaign tool. Never mind that it’s against the law for churches to engage in political campaigning –...
View ArticleWhen "Many in Poll Expected Jesus' Return" Means Most Actually Didn't
Many in Poll Expected Jesus’ Return by 2050 That’s the headline offered today by the Christian Broadcasting Network. You’ll have to look at the little words below the headline to notice that the poll...
View ArticleWhile Gun Deaths Decline and Schools Remain Safe, Americans Flip Out
The National Rifle Association has been using the death of a small number of children to try and mandate the use of armed guards in every school across the country. Not coincidentally for a group...
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Burying the Lede: No Matter How Pew Asks, Majorities Oppose Massive...
“Government Surveillance: A Question Wording Experiment,” reads the latest release of polling data from the Pew Research Center. The story underneath reads: To better understand how the manner in which...
View ArticleSurvey: Americans Feel Coldest Toward Atheists and Muslims
Last week, Rowan created a visualization of Pew Research polling data on Americans collected from January-March 2014. When Pew asked respondents how they would feel about their children marrying...
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Pew Asks: How Important is Religion in Your Life? The U.S. Responds…
… with slow but steady change: Source: Pew Global Attitudes Survey
View ArticleCatholicism and Irreligiosity in Society; Catholicism and Irreligiosity in...
Percent of Americans who indicate they are “Atheist,” “Agnostic,” or “Nothing in Particular” when asked to identify their religion in the 2014 Pew Religious Landscape Survey: 22.8% Rank of...
View ArticleAs American Religious “Nones” increase in Numbers, Here’s Why it Matters…
According to the 2014 Pew Religious Landscape Survey, the share of Americans who identify themselves as “atheist,” “agnostic,” or “nothing in particular” has jumped from 16.1% to 22.8% in the last...
View ArticleFive Years in, How’s the American-Muslim-Majority-in-Twenty-Years Trend...
In 2010 and again in 2011, American conspiracy theorists insisted that “in twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. and Canada to elect the President and Prime Minister.” In the...
View ArticleRacism and Poor Education Contribute To Fear Of Terrorism
Mark, a regular Irregular Times reader, wrote yesterday about the general difficulty in accurately judging risk that contributes to dramatic exaggerations of the dangers of terrorism. He writes, “It’s...
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U.S. on-track for Muslim majority population by 2050? Only in a Warped Frame
In this decade, members of the “alt-right” anti-immigrant community have developed a story of siege in which they claim that the United States is on track to become a majority-Muslim nation in a...
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