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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: 5, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Monday April 15 2019, @03:26AM (6 children)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday April 15 2019, @03:26AM (#829616)

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @04:17AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @04:17AM (#829629)

    I hear it’s working well for Sweden.

    • (Score: 2, Touché) by The Vocal Minority on Monday April 15 2019, @04:34AM (2 children)

      by The Vocal Minority (2765) on Monday April 15 2019, @04:34AM (#829643) Journal

      Neither Canada nor Sweden are socialist countries.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @08:18AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @08:18AM (#829733)

        Neither Canada nor Sweden are socialist countries.

        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

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @01:40PM (#829808)

        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

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @02:09PM (#829819)

    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.

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @04:52PM (#829927)

    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?