A new U.S. News/PBS's Religion & Ethics Newsweekly poll* suggests that the wealthiest, most powerful, and best-educated nation on Earth still is one of the most religious–but in some intriguing new ways. View a selected list of the poll results and compare your views.

1. How important would you say religion is in your life?

	Total	Christian	Non-Christian
Very important	64%	69%	40%
Somewhat important	23	24	20
Somewhat unimportant	6	4	13
Very unimportant	7	3	26
DK/NA/Refused	-	-	-

2. Since the terrorist attacks on September 11th, would you say that religion is...

	Total	Christian	Non-Christian
More important in your life	18%	18%	14%
Less important in your life	1	-	3
Same as it was before 9/11	81	81	81
DK/NA/Refused	1	-	1

3. When you think about the terrorist attacks on September 11th, how important has your religious faith been in helping you to deal with what happened?

	Total	Christian	Non-Christian
Very important	54%	58%	32%
Somewhat important	24	26	15
Somewhat unimportant	10	8	18
Very unimportant	9	5	31
DK/NA/Refused	3	3	4

4. Would you say the terrorist attacks on September 11th...

	Total	Christian	Non-Christian
…have shaken your faith in God?	3%	3%	2%
…have strengthened your faith in God	27	29	14
... did not affect your faith in God?	69	67	79
DK/NA/Refused	2	1	5

5. How often would you say you have experienced God's presence or a spiritual force that felt very close to you?

	Total	Christian	Non-Christian
Never	14%	10%	36%
Once or twice	16	17	13
Several times	21	23	15
Many times	46	49	34
DK/NA/Refused	2	2	3

6. Have your own religious practices been modified by your contact with people of other religious faiths ?

	Total	Christian	Non-Christian
Yes	23%	22%	30%
No	74	76	66
DK/NA/Refused	3	3	5

7. How tolerant do you think Christians in the United States are of people of other faiths?

	Total	Christian	Non-Christian
Very tolerant	29%	33%	12%
Somewhat tolerant	47	48	42
Somewhat not tolerant	11	10	19
Not tolerant at all	5	3	15
DK/NA/Refused	8	7	12

8. Does having many different religions in the United States make it harder to keep the country united?

	Total	Christian	Non-Christian
Makes it harder	29%	30%	24%
Does not make it harder	62	62	67
DK/NA/Refused	9	9	10

9. Which statement comes closer to your own views?

	Total	Christian	Non-Christian
The religion you practice is the only true religion.	17%	19%	7%
All religions have elements of truth.	78	77	86
DK/NA/Refused	5	4	7

	Total	Christian	Non-Christian
America's growing religious diversity is a threat to individual religious beliefs.	13%	14%	9%
American's religious diversity is a source of strength and vitality to individual religious beliefs.	76	75	80
DK/NA/Refused	11	11	11

10. Aside from weddings and funerals, how often do you attend religious services?

	Total	Christian	Non-Christian
More than once a week	20%	22%	10%
Once a week	27	30	14
Once or twice a month	15	16	9
A few times a year	18	18	15
Seldom or Never	20	14	51
DK/NA/Refused	1	-	1

11. How involved are you in activities at your church or house of worship?

	Total	Christian	Non-Christian
Very involved	25%	25%	24%
Somewhat involved	36	36	32
Somewhat uninvolved	20	21	13
Very uninvolved	19	18	29
DK/NA/Refused	1	-	2

12. How often do you attend prayer group meetings or Bible or scripture study groups?

	Total	Christian	Non-Christian
Frequently	27%	27%	27%
Sometimes	22	23	16
Hardly ever	22	23	19
Never	28	27	37
DK/NA/Refused	1	-	1

13. How would you describe your general impression of Islam?

	Total	Christian	Non-Christian
Very favorable	6%	5%	12%
Somewhat favorable	30	29	36
Somewhat unfavorable	24	25	22
Very unfavorable	13	15	7
DK/NA/Refused	26	26	23

14. Compared to other religions, do you think there is a larger, smaller or about the same number of violent extremists within Islam?

	Total	Christian	Non-Christian
Larger	39%	40%	34%
Smaller	4	4	4
About the same	40	39	45
DK/NA/Refused	17	16	17

15. What do you think the chances are of a bigger armed conflict sometime soon between the Christian countries of Europe and North America and Islamic countries?

	Total	Christian	Non-Christian
Very likely	34%	35%	33%
Somewhat likely	35	39	28
Somewhat unlikely	15	15	17
Very unlikely	7	7	10
DK/NA/Refused	9	8	12

16. Do you think all Catholics should have more of a say in the selection of bishops or should this be left only to church officials?

	Total Catholic
Catholics should have a say	48%
Left to church officials	44%
DK/NA/Refused	9%

17. Do you think Catholic priests should be allowed to marry or should it remain as it is and they not be allowed to marry?

	Total Catholic
Marry	70%
Not marry	23%
DK/NA/Refused	7%

*Conducted by Mitofsky International and Edison Media Research.
Due to rounding, figures in column may not add to 100%