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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: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:49AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:49AM (#182805) Homepage Journal

    My close friend Thomas Leavitt is an openly bisexual political activist. And yes he's completely cool with my naming him as a bisexual on the Internet. His father - who I think has passed away - was a minister. I never knew thomas' father but thomas always speaks highly of him. Thomas himself studied theology at Occidental College in Eagle Rock, California.

    I myself was raised as a Presbyterian. My take on religion is hard to explain, I'm not what most would call a Christian however I do attend church from time to time. For example I've only taken Communion just twice in a Presbyterian church, but sometimes go to Catholic churches because they take Communion at every service. When I was in Rome all I wanted to do was to hang out at the vatican.

    I met a woman on the light rail in Portland, who told me that a formerly homeless man was living in her basement. "We took him in because we are very Catholic." That's not what most people regard as "very Catholic" but in my experience, it is.

    I know all about the Evangelicals as I was once madly in love with one, I even attended an Evangelical service with her. My gripe with her was that she wanted a husband who would share her faith while I wanted a wife who would respect mine.

    There is a homeless shelter and a homeless day center in san luis obispo, california. Three squares a day, breakfast lunch and dinner, are prepared in church kitchens then brought to the shelter and the day center where it is served to the poor by Christians.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @10:20AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @10:20AM (#182851)

    [quoteMy take on religion is hard to explain ... For example I've only taken Communion just twice in a Presbyterian church, but sometimes go to Catholic churches because they take Communion at every service. [/quote]

    So basically you're all about the free wine.