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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(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @02:06AM
Most people don't even know what "socialism" is, only that it's something that they're supposed to be scared of. As a result, it gets thrown around a lot in situations where it doesn't even make sense, like in discussions about single payer healthcare. I've seen no evidence that a significant amount of people actually desire socialism. What I have seen, though, is propagandists erroneously throwing that term around to try to smear social democratic policies that would help ordinary people. Same with Venezuela. For some reason, the propagandists don't mention Scandinavia when discussing single payer, but instead refer to Venezuela, almost as if to hide the fact that they have no criticisms of substance.
And that's what people who don't care about policy substance do: Mindlessly throw around labels.
Or, you could just support a secular society.