Religion affects conspiracy belief

People who are active in organized religion are considerably less likely to believe in 9/11 conspiracy theories than are folks who have no religious preferences, according to the latest Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll.

Only 29 percent of people who've attended worship services at a church, synagogue or mosque in the previous week believe federal officials may have assisted in the 9/11 attacks or permitted them so that the United States could go to war in the Middle East. But 46 percent of people with no religious prefence entertain this theory.

Overall, the survey found 36 percent of all adult Americans gives at least some credence to the notion that the federal government was more involved in 9/11 than has been publicly acknowledged.