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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: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:45PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:45PM (#182890) Homepage
    > No salvation. No bondage

    What have you done with nirvana and samsara?
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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:27PM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:27PM (#183039) Journal

    > No salvation. No bondage

    What have you done with nirvana and samsara?

    Nothing, they are right behind you. Or all around you. But this does point out the difference between infantile religions and Buddhism. Delusion and extinguishment of delusion are not the same things as sin and redemption. Theism is, as Freud suspected, the projection of the child's perception of the parents into a fantasy realm. The doctrine of the Fall and Original sin are a child's fear of "being in trouble", and salvation is when the Big Daddy in the Sky forgives and loves us again. There is no doctrine of sin as disobedience in Buddhism, and no doctrine of "grace". This is because there is no god. (And please, let's not get started on bodhisattvas!)