Study on Religion's Ability to Solve Problems

Gallup conducted a recent poll of Americans which asked if they agreed that religion could solve all or most of today's problems.  The results were interesting:

Overall, most Americans agreed with the sentiment, but a few expected stereotypes emerged as being justified in the data:

• Women agreed more than men
• The old agreed far more than the young
• The South agreed more than any other region
• Conservatives agreed far more than Liberals

In fact, of all of those stereotypical differences, the one with the greatest differential was Conservative (at about 70%) versus liberal (at about 37%).  

It is a pretty striking difference between the two political, and as it turns out, religious philosophies.