With all the recent talk about anti-Semitism, who would have thought that Jews would prove so popular?

A new Gallup Poll (released September 7, 2006) asked respondents how they felt about ten different religious groups, ranging from “Fundamentalist Christians” to “Atheists.” By every measure, Jews drew the most favorable reaction, with the highest “positive” rating (58%) and the lowest “negative” rating (only 4%). By contrast, Americans expressed decidedly mixed feelings about Mormons (with a net negative rating, 29% to 28%) and Muslims (30% to 26%). The least popular religious groups in the survey proved to be Atheists (an overwhelmingly negative 44% to 15% rating) and, most especially, Scientologists (a stunning 53% negative, to just 11% positive – thank you, Tom Cruise!).  Read more…

I couldn’t help smiling when I read the article but at the same time, I’m sad because it really shouldn’t make any difference what religion a person participates in as long as the religion is generally non-violent IMHO.

Why generally?  Well, there are always times when the members of the religion have to take on violent ways for survival.  Note that I’m not including the murder of innocents that groups like Hezbollah seem promote.

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