[NYer]

1. The American Trends Panel is a new endeavor for the Pew Research Center. Its members were recruited from a nationally representative telephone survey conducted earlier in 2014 among more than 10,000 respondents. The American Trends Panel has many benefits, including the ability to follow individual panelists over time and see how their current views might predict future behavior and whether their views change. The survey methodology and the American Trends Panel are described in further detail at the end of this report. ↩
2. To double-check the analyses included in this report, alternative analyses were conducted in which the mean rating given across all eight religious groups was calculated for each respondent. Then each respondent’s average rating was subtracted from the rating he or she gave to each of the individual religious groups, resulting in a positive score (reflecting a warmer-than-average rating), a negative score (reflecting a colder-than-average rating), or a score of zero (indicating that the rating given to a group was equal to that respondent’s average rating for all eight groups). This alternative approach helps to control, analytically, for the fact that some respondents may tend to give warmer thermometer ratings, in general, while other respondents tend to give colder ratings, regardless of the group being rated. These alternative analyses showed the same overall patterns as the results presented in this report. ↩
3. When data collection for the 2014 Political Polarization and Typology Survey began, non-internet users were subsampled at a rate of 25%, but a decision was made shortly thereafter to invite all non-internet users to join. In total, 83% of non-internet users were invited to join the panel. ↩

[NYer]

Something for everyone, ping!

[SayNoToDems]

Save for later...interesting.

[boycott]

So agnostics and atheists feel better about muslims than they do Christians? This just confirms their stupidity. Maybe they should try to go live among muslims?

[BitWielder1]

That tells me what group journalists are from. No surprise there.

[wideawake]

So, according to this study, Jews have almost the lowest regard for Evangelical Christians of any group surveyed - only atheists have a lower opinion of Evangelicals.

On the other hand, white Evangelicals hold Jews in the highest regard.

I don't think there is a stronger mutual differential between any two groups in the survey.

[The_Reader_David]

Well, we at least have some idea how the Pew Center feels about Orthodox Christians: they didn’t even ask about us, even though we outnumber Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims among the U.S. population and Jews world-wide.

[wideawake]

Not that the study does not seem to give numbers regarding Muslims' opinions of other groups - only other groups opinions of Muslims.

Also interesting that Black Protestants have the lowest opinion of Catholics, along with people who say that they don't hold any strong beliefs.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I think the ratings for Hindus and Buddhists are low mostly because they are exceptionally quiet communities. And though Sikhs are a decided minority in India, they are on a far more level playing field in the US, but they are also very discreet, if possible.

Oddly enough, (very far) behind Christians, Hindus are now the second largest religion in Arizona, announced a few days ago. Their first splash in the state was in 2000, when they built their first dedicated temple, though many had been there a lot longer.

And the Buddhist community is generally quite wealthy, Chinese, going back to the building of the Transcontinental railroad. Both they and the Catholic church got a boost with the arrival of upper class Vietnamese, with the fall of Vietnam. Tens of thousands, but an invisible community.

And none of them are known for making a mess or a fuss.

So whether you like or dislike their religion, they are good neighbors.

[OrangeHoof]

Where is the pool of Muslims to rate other religions?

Everyone is asked about everyone except the Muslims. Maybe if they gave themselves an 80% like the other groups do of themselves, their thermometer gauge might be a bit higher and several other groups a bit lower.

[Salvation]

Great Post.

[Objective Scrutator]

Atheists and Muslims deserve to be despised more than what they are, given that both groups probably account for 90% of murder in the world. Both religions are made of nothing but scumbags who will stop at nothing to murder conservatives and Christians.

[FBD]

Agnostic: A person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of a god or gods, or of anything beyond material phenomena; a person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in God.

Atheist: A non-believer in a god or gods

I find it interesting that someone who doesn't know if there's a god or gods is classified as a being in a religious group? That's baffling to me. Religion is defined as the acceptance of some God, isn't it?

If someone is skeptical of that, how is he or she categorized into a religious group, as this this poll apparently does... that's odd.