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The Fastest Growing Group Of USAians: The Non-Religious

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

"gewg_" writes:

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, @01:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:04PM (#182880)

    You are sadly ignorant about 'Buddism' and 'Buddist's beliefs.

    There is no point to this spiritualism nonsense, either. I don't see the need to be part of any religion whatsoever, and nor do I see a need to play word games with "reincarnation"; there is no such thing unless you use a very odd definition of it to make it a completely secular concept, sort of like how more and more of the bible has become 'metaphorical' over time.

    So I fail to see the point. Why even play these games at all?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:46PM (#182891)

    So I fail to see the point. Why even play these games at all?

    Because humans are hardwired [psychiatrictimes.com] to be religious/spiritual. Just like not everyone has the same hair or skin color, not everyone has the same drive re:religion/spirituality, but its something most people can't really avoid.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @03:19PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @03:19PM (#183358)

      Humans are hardwired to do many foolish things. We should use our brains and reject illogical practices, however hard that may be, not surrender to them.

      And whether that is truly the case is debatable. This brain scanning nonsense is quite subjective and carries with it lots of assumptions; the same is true of psychology and the other social 'sciences'. I'll wait until real science shows what you claim, but I don't doubt it is true.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @03:24PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @03:24PM (#183359)

      Or maybe human beings are social animals and would be better served by forming secular groups than irrational fairy tales and new age spiritualism.