Young people are turning away from churches because they associate Christianity with Republican politics, a study reveals.
Political science Professors David Campbell (University of Notre Dame) and Robert Putnam (Harvard University) published their findings, "God and Caesar in America: Why Mixing Religion and Politics Is Bad for Both," in the March/April edition of Foreign Affairs. Campbell and Putnam also wrote American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us (2010), which was recently released in paperback. For that book, they have been surveying the same group of people from 2006 to 2011. The same data was used for the Foreign Affairs article.
One of the most surprising findings from the data they collected, Campbell said in a March 13 interview with The Christian Post, was that people are driven away or toward religious involvement because of their political leanings. In particular, those who are politically conservative, or Republican, are more likely to become churchgoers and those that are politically liberal, or Democratic, are more likely to turn away from religion.
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2 comments:
Politics and religion have been complementary to each other. Religion has been playing a very important role in the field of politics. Use of religion, caste or regionalism is a regressive and dangerous trend, capable of alienating people and dividing them into small sections. Thanks a lot.
it has been said that young people learn by what they see. the real question is. "what are they seeing in the family structure? are they trained up to return back home? i believe that our young people have learned more than we give them credit for. Law can never legislate our souls only God.
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