28%

American evangelicals who say torture is never justified.

25%

Secular Americans who agree.

26%

American Catholics who agree.

29%

All Americans who agree.

92%

Evangelicals who believe that not reporting all income on your taxes is morally wrong.

79%

All Americans who agree.

82%

Evangelicals who believe that drinking alcohol excessively is morally wrong.

61%

All Americans who agree.

75%

Evangelicals who believe that homosexual behavior is morally wrong.

50%

All Americans who agree.

73%

Evangelicals who believe that having an abortion is morally wrong.

52%

All Americans who agree.

68%

Evangelicals who believe that smoking marijuana is morally wrong.

50%

All Americans who agree.

60%

Evangelicals who believe that sex between unmarried adults is morally wrong.

35%

All Americans who agree.

58%

Evangelicals who believe that telling a lie to spare someone's feelings is morally wrong.

43%

All Americans who agree.

57%

Evangelicals who believe that gambling is morally wrong.

35%

All Americans who agree.

46%

Evangelicals who believe that overeating is morally wrong.

32%

All Americans who agree.

2

Americans who leave Catholic churches for every one who joins.

3

Americans who join evangelical churches for every one who leaves.

Sources: Pew Research Center for The People & The Press , Religion News Service

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Wow. Most of the stats are positively unsurprising. What appalls me, however, are the stats regarding extra-marital sex and gambling. I'm nearly speechless. It's amazing how one's "moral values" are tied to his/her sinful tendencies. The greater one's impulse to a particular sin, the more they condone it. How can someone consider themselves Evangelical and blatantly disagree with the explicit teaching of scripture? Can any genuine believer honestly digress with the teachings that adultery (extramarital sexual relations) and greed (the sole impulse for gambling, whether you admit it or not) is sin? I see a lot of grey in the Bible, but not on those issues. Incredible. www.theincarnate.blogspot.com

What about global warming, income disparity, decline of the American middle class. phoney TV preachers,

How utterly appalling that more than 70% of Christians find torture acceptable. Compare that to the percentages on paying taxes to a government that LIES, MURDERS, BULLIES and is INSANE and you have put together a group of people I want no part of any longer. As a new Christian I am saddened to see inflicting pain on people and ensuring it is funded it the number one priorities of this so called Jesus loving bunch. My faith tells me you people are way off the mark with God, but I am NOT surprised, just disgusted.

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