Not exact matches
White evangelicals are the most likely, with 52 percent seeing tension (they're only religious group in which the majority see a conflict between their
beliefs and science).
(CNN)- Over the last few days I have fielded hundreds of angry e-mails from pro-Mitt Romney
evangelicals about a recent
Belief Blog post in which I took Billy Graham and other
white evangelicals to task for turning Jesus into a water boy for the Republican Party.
More
white evangelicals (27 %) than black Protestants (18 %) think of themselves in 2016 as a member of a minority because of their religious
beliefs.
A recent PRRI / RNS poll reveals that
white evangelicals support a Mormon presidential candidate over Obama by an overwhelming 49 % margin, but are simultaneously the religious group most likely to say it is important for a presidential candidate to share their religious
beliefs (67 %).
White Americans with
evangelical beliefs favor Trump (65 %) over Clinton (10 %).
Second, we subdivided the three largest traditions (
white evangelicals, mainliners, and Catholics) into «modernist» and «traditionalist» categories, using combinations of
beliefs, behaviors, and belonging peculiar to each tradition.
So, as we look at
evangelicals by
belief, not just «
white evangelicals» (who are overwhelmingly for Donald Trump), we find a very different story.
White Americans with
evangelical beliefs favor Trump (65 percent) over Clinton (10 percent).
White evangelicals are also the least likely to know a Muslim, and their views often conflict with how Muslims in the US and abroad describe their
beliefs.
Leading up to the election, LifeWay Research, which measures
evangelicals by
belief and includes non-whites, found that
evangelicals of color sided with Hillary Clinton (62 %) nearly as strongly as
white evangelicals sided with Trump (65 %).