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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.
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Survey: As Many Americans Claim No Religion as there are Evangelicals, Catholics
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(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday April 15 2019, @03:53PM
One thing to bear in mind is that "Christians" as some sort of ecumenical umbrella isn't always an accurate depiction of things. The Catholics, Protestants, and Eastern Orthodox are generally mostly cool with each other now, but that's definitely not always been the case historically speaking, and Christians have slaughtered each other in the name of religion (e.g. the Fourth Crusade, the French Wars of Religion, the English Civil War, and even to some degree the Napoleonic Wars). One of the major practical reasons for the religious freedom aspects of the US's First Amendment was that it would have gotten really nasty had the founders had to choose between the Anglicans that dominated Virginia and other southern colonies, the Puritans that reigned supreme in Massachusetts and much of the rest of New England, and the Quakers who controlled Pennsylvania, all of which saw the other 2 as false religions.
Right now, the various Christian-types tend to see themselves as more-or-less unified. Give actual temporal political power to Christianity, and I can guarantee you that will change really really quickly.
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