Assess The Similarities And Differences Between The Three Religious Groups

The three religion groups used in this essays are the Catholics, Buddhists, and the Unaffiliated. Seeing as these three religious groups are completely different, their social and political views should differ importantly as well. The values of each group are different, with Catholics being the strictest. One could say that Buddhism’s values are more liberal, but they have important differences between them. The Unaffiliated group should have different views as well, as it is not linked to any religion. When it comes to the Catholics and their ethnicity, they are overwhelmingly white at 59%, and the second biggest ethnic group is Latinos at 34%. Stating that, we can proceed to examine their political affiliation. Catholics are fairly evenly distributed when it comes to politics, with 37% Republican and 44% leaning towards the democratic party. However, their ideology is mostly conservative or moderate. They are equally distributed in the idea of how big should the government be, almost half of them supporting a bigger government, and the other half a smaller one, a fact that is curious due to the fact that they lean toward the conservative

Most of them are located in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Washington. Unaffiliated mostly belong to the white ethnic category. They lean towards the democrats and, just as Buddhists, they are moderate/liberal. Usually conservative leaning people are more strongly linked to religion, so the fact that they are more liberal is not extraordinary. However, when it comes to the size of government, they are almost equally divided between smaller and bigger government, just as the Catholic religious group. Socially examining this group, one can say that they are strongly liberal, but surprisingly less than the Buddhists. The support of abortion counts up to 73%, the support of homosexuality 83%, and same-sex marriage to