“Alas” The truth comes out. The Op’s opinion of this survey was not forthcoming and deceives with the pretense that such a survey dubbed the LDS church falsely over all the other faiths surveyed;
“Mormons are among the most devout religious groups in the country.
Mormons are among those most likely to keep their childhood faith as adults.
Mormons are unusually giving.
Mormons are relatively friendly to other religious groups.
Mormons are among the most likely to believe that one true religion exists, but also that those outside their faith can attain salvation or reach “heaven.”—Sources: 1, 2.”
As I quoted the survey reveals a bias categorical false pretense of not only the Catholic faith in general but all others surveyed.
In other words, this survey does not define my Catholic faith nor does it survey it. It surveys’ its bias categories to summarize its findings from a selected few within the confines of a national border. This bias survey never defines nor surveys the Catholic faith because it has no borders to only a select few, as the LDS church was invented in America.
Therefore I submit to you, that this survey cannot be used to compare any faiths in general especially the Catholic faith. This survey remains bias to its limited categories and to a selected few. To post general comparisons of Christian faith’s from the original survey findings becomes misleading and arrives at a deceptive characterization other than what the survey originally intended its audiences.
ParkerD;7287764]It seems you may have misunderstood. No one answered your question about whether Catholics are studied in the book by the Harvard professor and a colleague. Here is a review of the book, which shows that Catholics were indeed included in the study:
I am amazed how public surveys never “tell the whole Truth”, but can only gage what the author of the survey is looking for. The OP’s survey does not survey or compare the Faith’s as falsely pretended here, but it gaged a people’s mood and characterization within borders of a nation during a time period.
A person must be disturbed who ever question’s the faith and patriotism of true red blooded Americans. Our political diversities is one aspect of what makes America Great in all the world. But what does this political arena has to do with “Christians”? Reveals from the OP’s survey findings is that the LDS has moved itself from “Faith” and into the political arena.
In short, I have not misunderstood, I have only revealed in part what this survey does not reveal.
Peace be with you
“Putnam and Campbell see a symptom of profound change in the national character. Using data drawn from two large surveys, the authors plumb these changes. The data show that the tempestuous sixties shook faith in religion and that the seventies and eighties incubated a strong resurgence of devotion. But the two most recent decades add another twist, as young Americans have abandoned the pews in record numbers. Still, despite recent erosion of religious commitment, Americans remain a distinctively devout people. And devotion affects life far from the sanctuary: Putnam and Campbell parse numbers that identify religious Americans as more generous, more civically engaged, and more neighborly than their secularly minded peers. But the analysis most likely to stir debate illuminates how religion has increasingly separated Republicans from Democrats, conservatives from progressives. Readers may blame the Christian Right for this new cultural fissure, but survey statistics mark liberal congregations as the most politicized. But whether looking at politics or piety, the authors complement their statistical analysis with colorful vignettes, humanizing their numbers with episodes from the lives of individual Protestants and Catholics, Jews and Mormons. An essential resource for anyone trying to understand twenty-first-century America. --Bryce Christensen”
And I really don’t care what he thinks.
