Attitude toward the Church Scale

I think the church is a divine institution, and it commands my highest loyalty and respect.

I am neither for nor against the church, but I do not believe that churchgoing will do anyone any harm.

I feel the good done by the church is not worth the money and energy spent on it.

I regard the church as a monument to human ignorance.

I believe that the church is losing ground as education advances.

I feel the church is trying to adjust itself to a scientific world and deserves support.

The teaching of the church is altogether too superficial to be of interest to me.

I feel the church is the greatest agency for the uplift of the world.

I think the church has a most important influence in the development of moral habits and attitudes.

I believe that the church is necessary, but, like all other human institutions, it has its faults.

I regard the church as a harmful institution, breeding narrow-mindedness, fanaticism, and intolerance.

The church is too conservative for me, and so I stay away.

I believe in the ideals of my church, but I am tired of its denominationalism.

I believe that the church furnishes the stimulus for the best leadership of our country.

I'm not much against the church, but when I cannot agree with its leaders I stay away.

I regard the church as hopelessly allied with reactionary forces.

I believe that the church practices the Golden Rule fairly well and has a consequent good influence.

I am interested only to the extent of attending church occasionally.

I feel the church is ridiculous, for it cannot give examples of what it preaches.

Sometimes I feel the church is worthwhile, and sometimes I doubt it.

My church is the primary guiding influence in my life.

I like the spiritual uplift I get from the church, but I do not agree with its theology.

My attitude toward the church is one of neglect due to lack of interest.

I believe the church is bound hand and foot with monied interests and does not practice its ideals.

I am sympathetic toward the church, but I am not active in its work.

I regard the church as a parasite on society.

I know too little about any church to express an opinion.

I regard the church as the most important institution in the world outside of the home.

I am slightly prejudiced against the church and attend only on special occasions.

I do not think a man can be honest in his thinking and endorse what the church teaches.

There is much wrong in my church, but I feel it is so important that it is my duty to help improve it.

I feel that the church promotes a fine brotherly relationship between people and nations.

I think the church is unreservedly stupid and futile.

I feel that church attendance is a good index of the nation's morality.

I feel the church is petty, easily disturbed by matters of little importance.

In the church I find my best companions and express my best self.

I believe the church is nonscientific, depending for its influence on fear of God and hell.

I am loyal to the church, but I believe its influence is on the decline.

It seems absurd to me for a thinking man to be interested in the church.

My attitude toward the church is best described as indifference.

I believe that anyone who will work in a modern church will appreciate its indispensable value.

The church deals in platitudes and is afraid to follow the logic of truth.

My attitude toward the church is passive, with a slight tendency to disfavor it.

I have a casual interest in the church.

I have nothing but contempt for the church.