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Jun 6, 2024 · Just 20% of Biden voters say a belief in God is needed to be moral and have good values. However, Biden supporters are divided by race and religious affiliation. Much larger shares of Biden’s Black (53%) and Hispanic (28%) supporters than his White supporters (8%) say belief in God is needed for morality. A majority of Black Protestants (57% ...
- Reem Nadeem
Mar 15, 2024 · Overall, 49% of U.S. adults say both that religion is losing influence and that this is a bad thing. An additional 8% of U.S. adults think religion’s influence is growing and that this is a good thing. Together, a combined 57% of U.S adults – a clear majority – express a positive view of religion’s influence on American life.
- Reem Nadeem
Jan 20, 2021 · Biden is only the second Catholic president, but nearly all have been Christians. Much has been written about President Joe Biden’s Catholic faith. He often speaks of his religious convictions and quotes the Bible, and he attends Mass regularly. Although about one-in-five U.S. adults are Catholic and Catholicism has long been one of the ...
Sep 27, 2024 · America is one of the most religious countries in the West. About two-thirds of its voters identify as Christian. But - things are changing and the nation has become less devout in the last few ...
- Tobin Miller Shearer
- End-times rhetoric. End-times rhetoric has long played a prominent role in American politics. In 2016, as presidential candidate Clinton told The New York Times, “As I’ve told people, I’m the the last thing standing between you and the apocalypse.”
- Divine mandate. Since the establishment of the republic, many U.S. political leaders have claimed a divine mandate. God, they asserted, guided the founding of the country’s democratic institutions, ranging from popular elections to the Constitution’s balance of powers.
- White supremacy and Christian nationalism. In the U.S., religious and racial identities have been intertwined from the country’s inception. Although also expressed in more subtle and systemic forms, during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, white supremacists made the most explicit claims of divine favor on the part of white people in general and people of Nordic descent in particular.
Mar 18, 2020 · Even outside the African American community, the American people as a whole continue to stand out for their religiosity: 55% say they pray regularly (compared to about 10% in France and 6% in the ...
Jul 13, 2021 · In contrast, Biden has highlighted his faith. "Kennedy was more a Catholic, in the background, whereas it's very much in the forefront of President Biden's life," says Drew Christiansen, a Jesuit ...
