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Survey: Non-Churchgoers favor a more religious America

ACCORDING to a Gallup poll released in May, a whopping 75 percent of Americans think the U.S. would be a better place to live if more people were religious—even though many of those surveyed reported they don't attend church themselves.

Confidence in US churches hits all-time low

A fresh update to Gallup's annual "Confidence in Institutions" survey reveals that only 44 percent of Americans today have "a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in 'the church or organized religion.'"

Mississippi most religious US State, Gallup finds

VERMONT and New Hampshire are the least religious states, and are two of the five states - along with Maine, Massachusetts, and Alaska - where less than 30% of all residents are very religious, a news report said.

Belief in Bible grew as employment declined: Gallup

BELIEF in the Bible hit a 35-year low in the United States in May 2008 when unemployment was at the relatively low level of 5.4 percent, but has begun to rebound over the past three years as unemployment has climbed to over 9 percent.

Most Americans don’t take the Bible literally: Gallup poll

ACCORDING to the poll, only three in 10 Americans interpret the Bible literally considering it to be the actual Word of God. Although the finding is similar to what Gallup has measured over the last two decades, it is down from the 1970s and 1980s.
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