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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: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday April 15 2019, @04:24PM

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Monday April 15 2019, @04:24PM (#829913) Homepage Journal

    If as we watch it I spot a sufficiently similar soundbite, then I will "-- Eugen Weber, via NotSanguine on SoylentNews" it, else I will "-- NotSanguine on SoylentNews, after Eugen Weber" it.

    Something about the comment to which I was replying made me think of the Weber quote (which immediately precedes the bit you like):

    The first men and women were hunters and nomads, awed and frightened by a world they did not understand. They invested great energy in rituals, sacrifices, temples, tombs. And with religion came gods and god-kings, magicians and priests."

    I used it to compare where we are now to how we began with this:

    We are no longer hunters and nomads. No longer awed and frightened, as we have gained some understanding of the world in which we live. As such, we can (aside from fiction and fantasy to tickle our imaginations and stretch our ideas of what is possible) cast aside childish remnants from the dawn of our civilization.

    There is, perhaps, more of Weber in that than there is of me. As such, I would much prefer that you include him in any attribution.

    FYI. The quote above contains the first three sentences of the first episode of the series. As such, you won't have to wait long to find it. :)

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