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Survey: As Many Americans Claim No Religion as there are Evangelicals, Catholics

posted by mrpg on Monday April 15 2019, @12:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the thank-you-jesus! dept.

"exec" writes:

For the first time "No Religion" has topped a survey of Americans' religious identity, according to a new analysis by a political scientist. The non-religious edged out Catholics and evangelicals in the long-running General Social Survey.

Ryan Burge, a political scientist at Eastern Illinois University and a Baptist pastor, found that 23.1% of Americans now claim no religion.

Catholics came in at 23.0%, and evangelicals were at 22.5%.

The three groups remain within the margin of error of each other though, making it a statistical tie. Over 2,000 people were interviewed in person for the survey.

[...] "We are seeing the rise of a generation of Americans who are hungry for facts and curious about the world," she says.

There are now as many Americans who claim no religion as there are evangelicals and Catholics, a survey finds

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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday April 15 2019, @01:01AM (1 child)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday April 15 2019, @01:01AM (#829557)

    I'm not sure pandering works that way.

    I think you can be pandered to if you're part of a group, but if you're not part of a group it's a bit harder.

    I'm guessing that's how you've wound up with people like Mike Pence.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @02:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @02:05PM (#829815)

    They are a group, they're just a group that's identified as having opted out to all that silliness. The targeting isn't as easy as it is when all the rubes show up at the same place to receive programming every week, but it can be done.

    Generally speaking, things which increase religious liberty are likely to go over well. Same goes for things that actually address our problems. You're just not likely to see us voting in lockstep to destroy the world or against our best interests because that's what the candidate that is giving lip service to us wants to do. Abortion and gay rights being criminalized is the only thing the evangelicals seem to care about, and they're willing to destroy the entire world to get it. Doesn't seem very Christian to me.