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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: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday April 15 2019, @05:51AM (2 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Monday April 15 2019, @05:51AM (#829681) Journal

    Those are the only real mechanisms you have to influence politicians.

    We can't know that until people make an effort to vote them out.

    --
    La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @09:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @09:41AM (#829749)

    We can't know that until people make an effort to vote them out.

    Isn't voting them out quite literally the first option given?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @04:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @04:58PM (#829930)

    Yeah, the push for voting machines came from no where and it seems like the point of them was to make it EASY to hack elections. This is upheld by the multiple researchers who were able to compromise voting machines within minutes.

    So if voting has been subverted then what?