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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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Survey: As Many Americans Claim No Religion as there are Evangelicals, Catholics
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @02:53AM (3 children)
Christianity is just a more mature belief system. Islam is where Christianity was like 400 years ago. The scarier one is "statism" (or whatever you want to call blind faith in the state), we've only seen the beginning of the horrors in the last century and it apparently requires a couple thousand of years for people to work out the kinks.
Look in this thread and you see people still blind to the fact they even have a religion.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by HiThere on Monday April 15 2019, @05:19AM (2 children)
I think you need to read a bit of history, and think a bit about strategic game theory.
Statism one of the oldest religions. The pharaoh was worshiped as the embodiment of the state. This has been re-implemented man times, sometimes more successfully than others. It can be modeled as worship of power, or worship of that which enables life. Both have happened, frequently at the same time. During the Roman Empire the Emperor was considered the direct representative of Jupiter, i.e. the power of the state. At the arena all the kills were dedicated to the emperor as the representative of Jupiter, i.e. of the state.
Today it's hard to see what's equivalent, but that doesn't mean it isn't present. The Romans thought they had abolished human sacrifice to Jupiter...but they just changed the form a little bit. I'm a part of the current social matrix, so I have a hard time seeing it also, but that doesn't mean it's not there. Perhaps it's related to the officially sanctioned slavery, and explains why the US has the highest percentage of incarcerated people, but that doesn't feel quite right. OTOH, a large part of the prisoners are convicted either falsely, convicted of trivial offenses, or both, so perhaps. After all, most of the gladiators who died in the arena were also slaves.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @06:16AM (1 child)
You're describing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesaropapism. [wikipedia.org]
I'm referring to just pure believe in the state as a solution to your problems.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @04:56PM
Fixed link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesaropapism [wikipedia.org]