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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: 2) by morgauxo on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:08PM

    by morgauxo (2082) on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:08PM (#182902)

    I think I remember learning in Comparitive Studies of Religion class, which I took at a state university that Buddhism did 'sort of' include the Hindu gods. What I remember being taught was that Buddhism originated from within Hinduism and that it the story goes that the Buddha converted all of the gods. So.. they are no longer worshipped by Buddhists as they are now on the path the same as any other Buddhist. But.. that is still a belief that they exist right?

    So.. did they teach us wrong?

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