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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 Phoenix666 on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:55PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:55PM (#182895) Journal

    Good post. I have a cousin who fits your description pretty well. He's an evangelical Christian (Dutch Reformed Church) who won't speak to his Methodist parents because they're not devout enough, and who eschews the consumption of pork because it's "unclean," who has committed serial adultery, gotten divorced, consults psychics, prays loudly in public every chance he gets, and has a bowl cut. Strangely enough when you point out his hypocrisy he gives himself an instant free pass, "Yes, I'm a wicked sinner (but he's a Christian so it's OK)."

    I seem to recall from the misty distant pasts of my own Christian education that that's a form of heresy, basically that you can commit any evil and do whatever you want but you get a free pass through Christ, but can't recall the name for it at the moment.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by everdred on Thursday May 14 2015, @03:29PM

    by everdred (110) on Thursday May 14 2015, @03:29PM (#182934) Journal

    Ugh, a bowl cut.

    • (Score: 2) by jasassin on Friday May 15 2015, @09:06PM

      by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Friday May 15 2015, @09:06PM (#183485) Homepage Journal

      Ugh, a bowl cut.

      I'd like to soccer kick anyone with a bowl cut directly in the testicles, but according to the other comments they already have one strike against them. Besides, if they already have a bowl cut I don't think a kick to the nuts would make things much worse.

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