31 March, 2009

Imagine if they'd asked about Islam...

A few weeks ago a study was conducted into Israeli Jews' attitudes towards Christians and Christianity. It all stemmed from the controversial rehabilitation by Pope Benedict of a bishop denied the extent of Jews killed in the Holocaust. What was fascinating was how the opinions of people fell completely along secular/religious lines on almost every issue.

I was going to make a nice table with the results, but since Blogspot apparently doesn't like the HTML coding for tables I tried using lists instead which also was a Blogspot!fail. So I'm just typing out a sample of the questions and you can go read the rest for yourself if you're interested.

All percentages are people who agreed with the statement.


- Christianity should be taught in schools.Secular: 68%
Religious: 27%

- Christians should be allowed freedom of religious exercise in Israel.Secular: 71%
Religious: 32%

- The sight of a person wearing a cross disturbs me.Secular: 9%
Religious: 60%

- All or most Christians are missionaries towards Jews.Secular: 18%
Religious: 43%

Now imagine you're the government and you have to represent the interests all of all these people at once. Go!

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