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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   
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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• Re:Christianity is like cowpox. (Score: 4, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Monday April 15 2019, @05:51AM

  by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Monday April 15 2019, @05:51AM (#829680) Homepage Journal

  Hilarious that you think you are so much smarter than other people just because you quote from a different set of government funded holy books. And I am way more anti religion than you, I assure you.

  I don't think I'm so much smarter than other folks.

  However, I'm not willfully ignorant and trollish like you. It's unclear as to whether your condition is a result of limited intellectual capacity, although I suspect it's more likely that you have Hunter S. Thompson Disease [harpers.org]:

  The disease is fatal. There is no known cure. The most we can do for the poor devil, it seems to me, is to name his disease in his honor. From this moment on, let all those who feel that Americans can be as easily led to beauty as to ugliness, to truth as to public relations, to joy as to bitterness, be said to be suffering from Hunter Thompson’s disease.

  And I don't really care what you think or believe. My suggestions weren't for you anyway, as explicitly mentioned in my post.

  Have the courage of your convictions. Or don't. It's no skin off my nose either way,.

  --
  No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr

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