• 69% of Americans say that liberals have gone too far in keeping religion out of schools and government.
• The Democratic Party continues to face a serious "God problem," with just 26% saying the party is friendly to religion.
• The proportion of Americans who say the Republican Party is friendly to religion has fallen from 55% to 47% in the past year
• The national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life finds that most Americans (59%) continue to say that religion’s influence on the country is declining
• The public is more divided on the question of whether religion’s influence on government is increasing (42%) or decreasing (45%).

NEW YORK -- A recent survey found that a majority of young teens said there are correlations between the messages of the Bible and the way they apply those messages to their lives. More than 1,600 teens aged 12-18 years were surveyed by the American Bible Society to find what kind of role the Bible plays in the lives of these youths.

• 70 percent of 12-15-year-olds said that Bible messages and the application of them to their lives correlate with one another.
• Among the teens, African American youths were significantly more likely to agree with this statement than teens of other ethnic groups.
  
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Eighty-seven percent of Americans are basic believers in the existence of God, saying either that they are convinced that God exists or that God probably exists and they have only a little doubt that this is the case.

• A slightly larger group of 92% of Americans can be classified in a group that tilts toward the existence of God, stating that at the least they think God probably exists, even though some have a lot of doubt about it.
• Only 3% of Americans can be considered to be hard-core atheists, convinced that God does not exist.
  Another 4% are agnostics of a sort, leaning toward a belief that God does not exist, but not sure that this is the case beyond a doubt. 
• Only about three-quarters of Americans with post-graduate educations or with incomes above $150,000 a year are certain that God exists or believe that God probably exists and have only a little doubt. 
   
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