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Fewer Americans Think Churches And Religions Solve Social Problems
http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/18/fewer-americans-think-churches-and-religion-solve-social-problems/Americans are becoming more skeptical that religion can solve social problems, according to a new poll.
Nineteen percent of U.S. adults feel religious institutions contribute “a great deal” to solving important social problems, while 38 percent feel that they contribute “some,” according to a Monday morning Pew Research Center poll.
While the majority of those polled still believe religion plays varying degrees of importance to solving social problems, this number has fallen significantly over the past two decades. In both 2001 and 2009, 75 percent of people surveyed felt that religious institutions contributed to solving social problems.
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Even after adding outside factors, such as age and political affiliation, the decline is significant. The poll found that across the spectrum — young and old, Republican and Democrat, more and less religious — Americans have become less likely to see churches and other houses of worship as “key problem-solvers in society.”
Nineteen percent of U.S. adults feel religious institutions contribute “a great deal” to solving important social problems, while 38 percent feel that they contribute “some,” according to a Monday morning Pew Research Center poll.
While the majority of those polled still believe religion plays varying degrees of importance to solving social problems, this number has fallen significantly over the past two decades. In both 2001 and 2009, 75 percent of people surveyed felt that religious institutions contributed to solving social problems.
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Even after adding outside factors, such as age and political affiliation, the decline is significant. The poll found that across the spectrum — young and old, Republican and Democrat, more and less religious — Americans have become less likely to see churches and other houses of worship as “key problem-solvers in society.”
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And Bush gave the furthest right of houses of worship to wreck all kinds of havoc during their 8 years. During that time they began breaking the rule of separation of church and state by simply telling people who to vote for. And that created more problems. No wonder we don't trust them anymore. 
