Belief Fact File - Center for Missional Research

This survey put youth into three groups: the Godly, the God-less, and the Undecided middle.
- The Godly (27 percent of Generation Y)
- God-less (27 percent of Generation Y)
- The Undecided (46 percent of Generation Y) Middle
The Godly are people with a strongly religious family life and are more likely to attend worship services regularly (71 percent) and have friends who practice the same religion as them (56 percent).
70 percent of the God-less say they hardly ever or never attend worship services.
Youth in the Undecided middle do not reject religion –over half strongly agree that religion is an important part of their lives and nearly half will call themselves religious (48 percent).

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Date: 11/6/2006

64% (total) of those surveyed agreed that the situation in Iraq/War is the top priority For Congress
- 60% of white frequent church goers agreed
- 68% of white infrequent church goers disagreed
Nine percent of the religious whites who favor the Republicans worry about a Democratic-controlled Congress becoming too liberal
- 7% are worried about abortion becoming more acceptable

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Date: 11/3/2006

Four out of Five (81%) of professors say that they are a spiritual person
Two thirds say they seek opportunities to grow spiritually to some extent and engage in self reflection to a great extent
47% of professors state that integrating spirituality into their life is essential
64% claim to be religious
- 29% of this number claim to be religious to some extent
- 35% claim to be religious to a great extent
61% claim to pray or meditate

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Date: 11/2/2006