Historian Jill Lepore tells Rachel Martin that Americans have no shared past, no shared agreement about the facts or meaning of our past — so it’s hard to have a shared sense of the present or future. NPR Read more »
Belief in Creationist View of Humans at New Low
The percentage of U.S. adults who believe that God created humans in their present form at some time within the last 10,000 years or so — the strict creationist view — has reached a new low. CONT. Art Swift, Gallup Read more »
Way More Americans May Be Atheists Than We Thought
… Recent surveys have found that only about one in 10 Americans report that they do not believe in God, and only about 3 percent identify as atheist. But a new study suggests that the true number of atheists could be much larger, perhaps even 10 times larger than previously […] Read more »
Record Few Americans Believe Bible Is Literal Word of God
Fewer than one in four Americans (24%) now believe the Bible is “the actual word of God, and is to be taken literally, word for word,” similar to the 26% who view it as “a book of fables, legends, history and moral precepts recorded by man.” This is the first […] Read more »
Support for Gay Marriage Edges to New High
Sixty-four percent of U.S. adults say same-sex marriages should be recognized by the law as valid. Although not meaningfully different from the 61% last year, this is the highest percentage to date and continues the generally steady rise since Gallup’s trend began in 1996. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
Why White Evangelicals Are ‘Splintering’ Politically
White evangelicals are a formidable force in American politics. Republican candidates hustle for their votes. White evangelical leaders have befriended presidents of both parties. The group even gets its own separate question in presidential exit polls. In The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America, journalist Frances FitzGerald writes about the […] Read more »