Pastors
52%: Americans who said in 2012 that clergy are highly honest.
50%: Americans who said in 2009 that clergy are highly honest. It was a record low.
7: Professions deemed more honest than clergy in 2012. (Nurses were No. 1.)
Sin
Americans who admit to the following temptations:
Eating too much
66%: Protestants
44%: Catholics
55%: All Americans
Gossip
22%: Protestants
29%: Catholics
26%: All Americans
Atheism
70%: Increase in church attendance among atheist scientists with children, compared to those without children.
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