The Pew Survey on Religion in Politics | National Catholic Reporter

The Pew Survey on Religion in Politics | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: On who should be the face of the Church?  Actually, it the one person no one talks about here - The Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome.  The New Rome part refers to the conscious decision to move the See of Peter from what was becoming a backwater, Italy.  Francis is our western patriarch, but he is not Peter.  The fact that almost no one knows this history reflects the rest of the survey.  I would have liked Pew to devise measures to sort respondents by political culture along the lines created by Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky.  I bet classifying on Despotism, Egalitarianism, Libertarianism and Hierarchism would be interesting within religions and between them - and then see how they relate to issues (although that may be self-reinforcing, because issue markers are correlated with culture) and who their pastor is.  Of course, you could ask group and rule-adherence based questions to use to classify culture and then measure issues - but I bet the results will be the same.  Sometimes the truth is about more than survey research.