Belief Fact File - Center for Missional Research

A recent study that looked at top box office movies from 1998 through 2006 has found that films with a strong Christian worldview tend to perform better at the theatres than those that include explicit sex and nudity and/or extreme foul language.
According to the study, the highest and lowest averages for films with a strong Christian worldview were between $106.3 million per movie and $30.1 million per movie, respectively.
Those films that have strong profanity, sex, and/or nudity had a range of high-lows from $27.7 million per movie to $6.3 million per movie, respectively.
The vast majority of moviegoers, which includes the 142 million Americans who go to church every week, prefer positive Christian movies with morally uplifting content.

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Date: 3/16/2007

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.
When asked the question, "How religious are you -- extremely religious, very religious, somewhat religious, not too religious, or not religious at all?" those surveyed said:
- 8% Extremely religious
- 29% very religious
- 39% somewhat religious
- 14% not to religious
- 9% not religious at all 1% no opinion

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Date: 2/26/2007

Thirty-two percent of those surveyed would like organized religion to have less influence "in this nation," 27% would like it to have more, and 39% say that the current amount of influence should be kept as is.
The 2007 January survey included a separate question that asked Americans if they are satisfied or dissatisfied with the influence of organized religion today:
- On Jan 15-18, 22% were very satisfied
  - 34% somewhat satisfied
  - 16% very dissatisfied.
56% of Americans currently say they are satisfied with the influence of organized religion, while 39% say they are not.

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Date: 2/2/2007