Survey Shows U.S. Religious Tolerance

The New York Times has an article titled, "Survey Shows U.S. Religious Tolerance" which reports on the results of a survey from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. The study shows a large degree of religious tolerance in the U.S. across all sects and segments of society.

From the NYT article:

For example, 70 percent of Americans affiliated with a religion or denomination said they agreed that “many religions can lead to eternal life,” including majorities among Protestants and Catholics. Among evangelical Christians, 57 percent agreed with the statement, and among Catholics, 79 percent did.

Among minority faiths, more than 80 percent of Jews, Hindus and Buddhists agreed with the statement, and more than half of Muslims did.

The findings seem to undercut the conventional wisdom that the more religiously committed people are, the more intolerant they are, scholars who reviewed the survey said.

Now if only other countries were as equally tolerant.