Fact Checker: Mike Pence says America has found religion
Democracy Dies in Darkness The truth behind the rhetoric Mike Pence says America has found religion “Religion in America isn’t receding. It’s just the opposite,” the vice president said at a conservative Christian college in Michigan , citing statistics about the share of Americans who pray, read the Bible and attend church. Alas, this was an apocryphal claim. It all began with an article in the Federalist (“New Harvard Research Says U.S. Christianity Is Not Shrinking, But Growing Stronger”), which discussed findings from two academics. Pence misinterpreted their work. The academics actually found that, except for a core group of true believers , religion was fading away in the United States. In fact, their study suggests that as religion has become more politicized in the United States, more moderates have abandoned it — not at all what Pence claimed. “Our data do not support the conclusion that religion is on the rise in the Unite...
