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An ‘empathy gap' divides Americans ahead of the midterms, says PRRI report (religionnews.com)
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Results of a survey, split out by religion (10 groups), where Americans answer how strongly they agreed with two statements:

  1. "Empathy is a foundational moral value that helps build a healthy society", and
  2. "Empathy can become dangerous when it leads people away from building a society guided by God's truth".

The top 4 groups most likely to agree with (1) and least likely to agree with (2) were, in order (1 vs. 2): Unaffiliated (83% vs. 13%), Other non-Christian religion (80% vs. 18%), Jewish (77% vs. 23%), and White mainline non-evangelical Protestant (73% vs. 25%).

The least likely to agree with (1) and most likely to agree with (2), by far, was White evangelical Protestant (42% vs. 44%).

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[–] [S] 2 points 5 days ago*

"White mainline non-evangelical Protestant" is not MAGA, those are the more liberal protestant denominations, though some of them are more conservative than others, so there are some magats in that group as well. But it's the "White evangelical Protestant (the one on the last line above) that is the heart of MAGA.

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