RWA scale items do not depend on religious content to predict religiosity

Evidence

However, in every instance in which I have found RWA Scale connections with acceptance of traditional beliefs, Christian Orthodoxy scores, and other measures to be discussed in Chapter 6, all or nearly all of the items on the RWA Scale had significant correlations with the religious variable. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 525

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates and sharpens vault claims that authoritarianism’s tie to religion is about submission, not belief content per se (Cooper, Whitehead & Perry).