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Oct 27, 2008

Religion & Ethics survey: U.S. has moral obligation abroad

A survey of 1,400 adults by the PBS program Religion & Ethics Newsweekly and the United Nations Foundation about religion and America's role in the world found that "the vast majority of Americans believes the U.S. has a moral obligation to be engaged on the global stage in a variety of ways," reported Bob Abernethy on the program's Oct. 24 edition (transcript here). "At the same time, Americans are divided about equally on whether the U.S. has a positive or negative impact on the world." The survey found that 61 percent of Americans believe that God has "uniquely blessed" the U.S. 

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