Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

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

-- submitted from IRC

Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Survey: As Many Americans Claim No Religion as there are Evangelicals, Catholics | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 111 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday April 15 2019, @05:17AM (2 children)

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Monday April 15 2019, @05:17AM (#829662) Homepage Journal

    Failing to do so does no service to those who are easily swayed or manipulated. Rather, it just perpetuates magical thinking and intellectual maturity.

    Argh! That should read:

    Failing to do so does no service to those who are easily swayed or manipulated. Rather, it just perpetuates magical thinking and intellectual immaturity.

    --
    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   2  

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday April 15 2019, @04:20PM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Monday April 15 2019, @04:20PM (#829909) Homepage
    Yup, that mistake raised a titter. So, to return the mild enjoyment, here are some extracts of my .sig file that came from the green site or here:

    > 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
    -- DannyB on SoylentNews (2018/11)
    --
    Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves