When it comes to Americans’ views on churches and religious institutions, there’s a sharp partisan divide. According to new polling data released by the Pew Research Center, Republicans are significantly more likely to view religious organizations as having a positive effect “on the way things are going in the country.”
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In fact, 73 percent of Republicans have favorable views of churches and religious institutions versus 50 percent of Democrats, with Pew affirming that Democrats are “more ideologically divided” than their Republican peers.
And it’s easy to see just how splintered party adherents are once one dives deeper into that data.
Among liberal Democrats, just 40 percent said that churches and religious institutions are positive, with a slightly higher percentage — 44 percent — saying that these groups are actually negative. The majority (58 percent) of more conservative or moderate Democrats, though, see churches as positive rather than negative (29 percent), according to the results.