Study: Jews Most Popular Religious Group in the U.S.

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Respondents to a Pew survey gave Judaism the "warmest, most positive" rating on a scale of 1 to 100

12:22 PM ET
Sam Frizell

Jews are viewed most positively by Americans among the major religious groups, according to a survey released Wednesday.

The Pew survey asked participants to rate their attitude toward different religious groups on a “feeling thermometer” on a scale of 0 to 100 with 100 being the “warmest, most positive” rating. The 3,217 respondents rated Jews, Catholics and Evangelical Christians scores of 63, 62, and 61, respectively.

On the other end of the spectrum, Muslims were rated least favorably, with a score of 40. Atheists were rated a step higher with a score of 41. Buddhists, Hindus and Mormons were in the middle, with ratings of 53, 50 and 48, respectively.

Unsurprisingly, groups were rated highest by their own members, with Catholics receiving an average rating of 80 from Americans who describe themselves as Catholic, for instance.

http://time.com/2992611/study-jews-most-popular-religious-group-in-the-u-s/



http://www.pewforum.org/2014/07/16/how-americans-feel-about-religious-groups/

[Xipe Totec]

1. Who asks these questions? nt

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2. You should click on the full report.

There are interesting findings.

[Xipe Totec]

3. The article does not say who comissioned the study.

Hence my question; who asked?

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6. It appears to be ongoing research from the Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project.

Which in turn is ultimately a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Election campaigns are more likely to commission polls.

[Fred Sanders]

4. A feeling thermometer? The dummying down of America is now thermonuclear.

How about a hate thermometer, would be more informative?

"Jews and Atheists tend to have negative feelings towards Evangelicals, even though Evangelicals rated Jews highly."

Talk about dividing up the nation, the media is leading that division.

[bluestateguy]

5. I don't see Mainline Protestants on that list

or Mormons or Orthodox Christians.

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7. Click on the detailed tables.

[No Vested Interest]

8. The 63,62, 61% are a statistical wash.

Stated in the details by Pew are that the margin of error is 2.2 for the total number of ca 3700+.

[TlalocW]

9. I love me some Jews!

Some of my best gigs balloon twisting was at the Tulsa Temple especially on Purim. I was made to feel very welcome, and they wrapped up a bunch of Hamantashen pastries for me to take home. The Rabbi was a woman, and she was watching me twist, and when one kid asked me to make a Cartman from South Park, she exclaimed, "Cartman? Get Kyle! He's the Jew!"

TlalocW

[longship]

10. Beautiful story. LOL. nt

[MellowDem]

11. I think this survey shows how conservative Republicans are...

It also shows that the Democratic Party is generally just a moderate Republican Party. The order of views doesn't change much between the two, just the extremity of those views.

This country is still very conservative. And progressives have no party, much less atheists. Just a lesser of two evils.

[cbayer]

12. Are atheists making gains or Muslims losing ground.

Last time I saw comparable data, atheists were at the bottom and I thought the overall negative was much greater.

There is some really interesting data in the actual report. Definitely worth perusing, but I would like to see some comparison to earlier data.