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During the semester, I shall post course material and students will comment on it. Students are also free to comment on any aspect of American politics, either current or historical. There are only two major limitations: no coarse language, and no derogatory comments about people at the Claremont Colleges. This blog is on the open Internet, so post nothing that you would not want a potential employer to see. Syllabus: http://gov20h.blogspot.com/2023/08/draft-introduction-to-american-politics.html

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Religion News: Senator Clinton, New Poll

A column in today's Washington Post says: "As Clinton methodically consolidates her hold on the Democratic presidential nomination, Republicans are facing, in the words of her spiritual biographer Paul Kengor, `the most religious Democrat since Jimmy Carter.'And this introduces an unpredictable element into a wide-open election."

The Pew Forum has some fascinating new findings about attitudes toward various religions. Compare the general public (below), with college faculty members. According to a survey earlier this year: "Just one group elicited high negative feelings among faculty: Only 30% ranked their feelings toward Evangelical Christians as warm/favorable, with only 11% feeling very warm/favorable, the lowest raking among every other religious group, and 53% said that they have cool/unfavorable feelings toward Evangelical Christians."

1 comment:

Charles Johnson said...

Why is that atheists who have served and lived amongst us for years are seen as less favorable than Muslims, one fourth of whom say suicide bombing is sometimes justifiable?