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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The number of American Christians who believe that the bible should have primacy over the constitution and the American judicial system are vanishingly small. Whereas in many of the largest Muslim-majority countries, a clear majority of Muslims who believe the Koran has primacy over secular law.
One who puts secular law above religious law.
You can believe what you want. The attitudes captured in global polls say otherwise.
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I've tried to look before and never found anything but does pew ask those same baseline questions to Christians as well. Like if you asked should the bible be the basis of law I wonder what kind of numbers you get amoung people self identifying as Christians and people who attend church regularly.
http://www.pewforum.org/2006/08/24/m...litics/Without that baseline information it's difficult to tell if the information in the above polls is a problem of religion or a problem of type of religion. You also need to assess those stats along demographics lines with income and education.
Right now those are numbers, but I think it becomes dangerous to infer keening from those numbers with out a lot of analysis to work out correlations vs causations.
I should add that I have read this survey:
http://www.pewforum.org/2006/08/24/m...-and-politics/
Which doesn't have the same hard yes and no questions but it does put 60% of white evangelicals supporting the bible being basis of law and over 50% of the population of the survey saying that the decline in the bibles influence in law is a bad thing.