It's Not Both Sides
The refusal of Christians to acknowledge asymmetrical political dysfunction is destroying our democracy
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This week the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) released an in-depth report studying the relationship between religious belief and climate change.
As typical, they broke down the results according to a number of demographics including party affiliation.
They asked what caused climate change: human activity (e.g. burning fossil fuels), naturally occurring weather patterns, or if there was no evidence for climate change at all.
According to political affiliation 83 percent of Democrats said climate change is being caused by human activity, 64 percent of independents agreed, but just 28 percent of Republicans said the same.
Although most Americans dispute the notion that climate change is occurring, Republicans (20%) are more than twice as likely as independents (8%) and five times as likely as Democrats (4%) to believe that there is no solid evidence of climate change.
For too long, Christians have claimed that both political parties—Republicans and Democrats—are equally to blame for the dysfunction in our democracy.