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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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday April 15 2019, @02:13PM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday April 15 2019, @02:13PM (#829823) Journal

    It is wishful thinking and serves as an apt example of how people use statistics to lie. Atheists and anti-Christian haters of every variety would like to paint a rosy picture of their own prospects, and downplay those of Christians. It's propaganda.

    The rest of us should pause, think about what they're claiming for 500 milliseconds, and throw it on the rapidly growing trash heap of more lies the mainstream media has told in the last ten years year week twenty-four hours.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @03:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @03:17PM (#829865)

    what difference does it make if no one believes? well I mean besides the end to religious atrocities and stuff

    you make atheists seem bad, but there are no athiest priests molesting children. usually, its the weird trailor park guy, or a repressed conservative somwehere--repressed because of religion.

    liberals that have weird tendencies tend to come to an agreement with other weird liberals and keep the kids and vulnerable populations out of it. they hardly make the news unless they are political donors or live near a school. but priests--there seem to be too bad ones to count. even ex pope benedict came out swinging saying women should wear burkas because too many women are making men horny by having been born after the 1950s.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @08:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @08:58PM (#830049)

    Ah, yes, it's the evil atheists (?) doing propaganda again. Good thing religious people would never do that.