Is It Necessary for Highly Religious Americans to Change Society?

Most seem content to be personally religious or do individual conversion attempts

Most highly religious Americans either believe that they can be personally religious without needing to spread their beliefs, or that they can best spread their beliefs by converting others to their religion. Only a small percentage of highly religious Americans -- 15% -- believe the best way to spread their religion is to change society to conform to their religious beliefs. Full Story »

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Dale Penn
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by Dale Penn - Oct. 1, 2008

This poll appears to beg more questions than to provide meaningful answers. Why were only the “highly religious” (as defined by the poll) asked if they try to change society to spread their beliefs? Isn't it fair to speculate that those who are not so busy proselytizing for their religion might be MORE likely to be busy trying to change society? Perhaps people so religious would not even see their efforts to change society as a way of "spreading" their religious beliefs at all – as their beliefs are so much a part of who they are – making an objective answer to this question practically impossible. Why is this an either/or question anyway? Most highly religious people I know are very involved in BOTH converting others and trying to change society - yet the poll seems to limit responses to one answer. Perhaps this is why 14% had "no comment". The polling methodology seems designed to diminish the perceived role of the highly religious community in trying to change society. Neither the narrative, nor the methodology seem terribly convincing to me.

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