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"gewg_" writes:

I found this a while back. It seems to show on one axis the Pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps ideology vs The Good Samaritan notion and the other axis looks to be the I-know-what's-best-for-you meme vs the It's-your-life,-live-it thing.
Maybe you too will find the relative positions of the various sects interesting.
The Buddhists and Atheists are close together.
The Muslims, Hindus, and black Baptists aren't far apart.
The Mormons and Southern Baptists are clustered.
The Catholics barely budge from dead center.

The Center for American Progress asks:

Does where you go to church (or temple, or mosque, or service, etc.) actually dictate your political views? A new chart, compiled by Tobin Grant of the Religion New Service [...] takes a stab at answering this question by visually illustrating the general political beliefs of religious people on two policy questions. In it, an individual's income bracket--and political opinions generally reflective of one's economic situation--looks to coincide with what "kind" of church he/she attends. Except for when it doesn't.

As Grant explains: "This new graph maps the ideologies of 44 different religious groups using data comes from [Pew Research's 2008] Religious Landscape Survey. This survey included 32,000 respondents. It asked very specific questions on religion that allow us to find out the precise denomination, church, or religion of each person."

In other words, the dimensions of each color-coded circle reflect the relative size of the religious group it represents, and a circle's position on the graph illustrates how the faithful feel about the government's involvement in both the economy (bigger government with more services vs. smaller government with less services) and morality (greater protection of morality vs. less protection of morality).