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posted by mrpg on Monday April 15 2019, @12:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the thank-you-jesus! dept.

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: 3, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Monday April 15 2019, @06:36AM (3 children)

    Ah, sorry. Funny for someone who's never played D&D to use so much of the terminology, huh? Basically, those are two separate stats, INTelligence and WISdom. I've heard it explained as "Intelligence is knowing a tomato is technically a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad despite knowing that."

    Thanks! Things make a lot more sense now.

    I don't disagree with you, but I long ago identified three broad groups:
    1. Those who don't have strong intellectual capacity (not so smart);
    2. Those who have a reasonable amount of intellectual capacity and use it learn, understand and interpret the world around them (smart);
    3. Those who have a reasonable amount intellectual capacity, but for whatever reason choose not to learn or understand the world around them (willfully ignorant)

    People in categories 1 and 2 are generally pretty decent folks. However, folks in category 3 are usually opinionated, closed-minded and generally unpleasant.

    At the same time, your point brings to mind an insightful bit from The Books of Bokonon [wikipedia.org]:

    Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

    --
    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 15 2019, @06:18PM (2 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday April 15 2019, @06:18PM (#829961) Journal

    We are drowning in Type 3s. KHallow is one of the single worst offenders on the side; he seems to take some kind of perverse pleasure in refusing to use his considerable intelligence for the benefit of anyone but himself, and not even his own long-term benefit at that. He's convinced he's right about everything, which means he's stagnating; none of his base assumptions are open to change. From an impregnable fortress of ignorance (think "pillow fort made of his own compacted feces") he rains down bullshit on the rest of us.

    --
    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @06:36AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @06:36AM (#833739)

      You judge him as wrong, and thus willfully ignorant, ignoring that possibility that you are wrong and willfully ignorant.

      FYI, about 80% of your opinions are clearly wrong. Much of the rest might also be wrong.

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 23 2019, @10:15PM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday April 23 2019, @10:15PM (#834067) Journal

        Saying it doesn't make it so. I've pointed out where he is wrong, why he is wrong, and how he is wrong. While no one is perfect, and I would certainly never claim to *never* be wrong, I'm one king hell mountain of a lot less wrong than him.

        --
        I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...