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Is religion the most important thing in your life? This is one of the questions people had to answer in a\u00a02013 Public Religion Research Institute\/Brookings survey<\/a>\u00a0as researchers tried to figure out how much faith influences people\u2019s views\u00a0on culture and the economy. They got pretty striking results: More than half of people who they considered to be \u201creligious conservatives\u201d said yes, while only about 10 percent of people classified as \u201creligious progressives\u201d said the same. This means that on a whole host of issues, ranging from abortion and gay marriage to welfare and the minimum wage, faith probably has more of an influence on how conservatives think than it does for liberals.<\/span><\/div>\n

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It\u2019s tough to get inside people\u2019s heads and understand how their beliefs about God affect their views on culture, but\u00a0a new report from Brookings<\/a>\u00a0hints at why researchers might want to: In terms of numbers, religious progressives are gaining on religious conservatives. According to the researchers, \u201creligious progressives\u201d are people of faith who have typically \u201cliberal\u201d opinions on a range of issues: They want more government support for the poor, rather than less; more freedom to have pre-marital sex and drink, rather than less, etc. From this break-down of age and race, you can see that religious progressives dominate America\u2019s growing populations:<\/span><\/div>\n
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