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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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If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Monday April 15 2019, @05:03AM (7 children)
An interesting, if flawed argument. Yes, some folks aren't so bright and are often led astray by those who would manipulate them, for money, power, self-aggrandizement or some combination thereof.
However, using demonstrably false belief systems as a structure for society is lunacy in a world that now has a much better understanding of the universe in which we live.
This [youtube.com] provides some context:
We are no longer hunters and nomads. No longer awed and frightened, as we have gained some understanding of the world in which we live. As such, we can (aside from fiction and fantasy to tickle our imaginations and stretch our ideas of what is possible) cast aside childish remnants from the dawn of our civilization.
Failing to do so does no service to those who are easily swayed or manipulated. Rather, it just perpetuates magical thinking and intellectual maturity.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday April 15 2019, @05:17AM (2 children)
Argh! That should read:
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday April 15 2019, @04:20PM (1 child)
> I'd argue that there is much evidence for the existence of a God.
Pics or it didn't happen.
-- Tom (/. uid 822)
I don't recall Sagan ever having conducted television services on Sunday
morning, and I know that Stephen Jay Gould never rang my doorbell asking
me for a few minutes of my time, and for the life of me I can't remember
Bertrand Russell ever coming up to me on the street and asking me if I
had let Reason into my heart. -- cje (/. id. 33931)
I do not think, therefore He is.
-- Noughmad on /.
Religion is the best way to heal a world deeply and violently divided by religion
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday April 15 2019, @04:29PM
Fabulous! Thanks!
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday April 15 2019, @03:13PM (3 children)
Beautifully worded - may I snarf that, with attribution of course, for rotation in my usenet .sig file?
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday April 15 2019, @04:04PM (2 children)
You certainly may. And thank you!
However, I'd point out that I was inspired by this [youtube.com], so some credit should be given to Eugen Weber [wikipedia.org] as well.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday April 15 2019, @04:13PM (1 child)
If as we watch it I spot a sufficiently similar soundbite, then I will "-- Eugen Weber, via NotSanguine on SoylentNews" it, else I will "-- NotSanguine on SoylentNews, after Eugen Weber" it.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday April 15 2019, @04:24PM
Something about the comment to which I was replying made me think of the Weber quote (which immediately precedes the bit you like):
I used it to compare where we are now to how we began with this:
There is, perhaps, more of Weber in that than there is of me. As such, I would much prefer that you include him in any attribution.
FYI. The quote above contains the first three sentences of the first episode of the series. As such, you won't have to wait long to find it. :)
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr