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posted by CoolHand on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the touched-by-his-noodly-appendage dept.

Washington's Blog reports

The Pew Research Center on Religion & Public Life is reporting, in their poll of 35,000 Americans, that during the seven years from 2007 to 2014, the numbers of religiously "Unaffiliated" were soaring, the numbers of Christians were plunging, and the numbers of adherents to non-Christian faiths were rising substantially but not nearly as much as were the numbers of "Unaffiliated".

This report, issued on May 12th, is headlined, "America's Changing Religious Landscape: Christians Decline Sharply as Share of Population; Unaffiliated and Other Faiths Continue to Grow".

It shows that: the percentage of Americans who are unaffiliated rose from 16.1% in 2007 up to 22.8% today.

[...][The USA] is becoming a less [religious], and a more religiously diverse, country.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:16AM (#182794)

    Hey! Do not mock those who worship the great Flying Spagetti Monster! (Pasta be his name!) You do not need ears to be a deity, only eyes and meatballs, apparently.

  • (Score: 1) by VitalMoss on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:21PM

    by VitalMoss (3789) on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:21PM (#182971)

    As an ordained reverend, I can affirm this.

    His Noodliness needs not eyes or ears, merely strands of carbs to dole out his will (and meat sauce)

  • (Score: 2) by davester666 on Sunday May 17 2015, @07:42PM

    by davester666 (155) on Sunday May 17 2015, @07:42PM (#184163)

    Yeah, I'm not wearing a spaghetti strainer on my head for fun.