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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.
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Any of the millions of Styrofoam wads that accompany mail-order items.
-- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday April 15 2019, @02:02AM (10 children)
The A/C above is just presenting a sort of strawman for your enjoyment.
"If you want socialism, then you wind up with Venezuela, if you're not Christian, then you must be Muslim.
As someone who comes from a country where fewer than 8% of people attend any church regularly, that sort of blinkered thinking seems weird.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Monday April 15 2019, @03:01AM (9 children)
... and as someone from a socialist country (Canada, but most norther European countries re as well), AC can go fuck themselves. Pretty much all the top-rated countries for all the quality of life categories are socialist. Thanks for the support for the Corporatocracy though, my stock portfolio is doing very well.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @03:05AM
"Quality of life categories" as defined and measured by governments...
(Score: 5, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Monday April 15 2019, @03:26AM (6 children)
Yeah, I come from one of those socialist hell-holes where I am not bankrupted when I get sick or have an accident too.
I can't understand why those Americans don't demand better.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @04:17AM (3 children)
I hear it’s working well for Sweden.
(Score: 2, Touché) by The Vocal Minority on Monday April 15 2019, @04:34AM (2 children)
Neither Canada nor Sweden are socialist countries.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @08:18AM
By American standards, they sure are socialist. Also, your nick is very telling, hahaha.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @01:40PM
It's convenient that socialist countries are no longer socialist countries once they start running into serious problems.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @02:09PM
Because ... Abortion!
Christianity, not just the destroyer of nations. The destroyer of civilizations. First Rome, followed by a thousand years of darkness, now the secular west, to be followed by even worse if things keep going the way they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @04:52PM
The problem is that "quality of life" isn't well defined. For example, a religious person might think "hrs spent praying per day" should be a component. Wasn't there that one metric for how "democratic" each nation was that put North Korea at the top, so they just dropped that country from the study?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @06:22PM
these state socialist countries are only doing so well because they have a fairly homogeneous (and Aryan) culture. let your stupid governments keep importing third world dipshits and get back to me in 25-50 years. You are just like well to do american whites who love diversity b/c they don't have to live in the ghettos and the only blacks and browns they have to deal with have been anglicized or are kept at arms length. their children don't have to go to school with central american gangs, retarded monkeys nor muslim rapists. you're on a path to suicide and you're too comfortable to know it.