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Unit 4: Religion in the United States

 
   

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Exercise ¢ñ

I. Decide whether the following statements are true or false:
1. During the War of Independence and many years after that, the Americans were mostly concerned about religious freedom.
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2. According to the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, there would be a state-supported region.
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3. Those citizens whose religion forbids them to fight in wars can perform other services instead of becoming soldiers.
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4. The Baptists are the largest Protestant group in the U.S. with over 25 million members.
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5. There are more than 100 Protestants sects in the United States today.
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6. There are more Catholics than Protestants in the U.S.
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7. John F. Kennedy was the first Catholic elected as the U.S. president.
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8. Today many Jewish people don't think of themselves as ethnically Jewish any more and have adopted a secular, non-religious outlook.
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9. When a Supreme Court decision made abortion legal in America, many Catholics, evangelical Protestants and Orthodox Jews objected.
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10. In America, scientific and economic advance and rising material progress have been accompanied by a decline in religious observance.
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