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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: 5, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:47PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:47PM (#182892) Journal

    Don't worry unless you live in the South. Evangelicals are heavily concentrated in the South. My own theory is they're that way because it's a somewhat socially acceptable cover for hating Yankees, gays, blacks, women, science, and furriners; it really has nothing to do with Jesus, Christianity, or love. And it's not limited to a particular denomination, like, say, Southern Baptists. I'm a Presbyterian and have known the denomination all my life as a calm, accepting, put-your-faith-into-your-actions branch of Christianity, but when I meet Presbyterians from the South they alarm the crap out of me.

    So, to sum up, the Southern evangelicals ruin Christianity, civilization, and pretty much everything else for everyone else. :-)

    Wow, that's gotta be a personal best for a flame/troll post.

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  • (Score: 2) by dcollins on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:38PM

    by dcollins (1168) on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:38PM (#182909) Homepage

    I think that's insightful.