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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.
(Score: 2) by rts008 on Thursday May 14 2015, @03:34PM
For more on my views, see my reply to 'FatPhil'.(it's too much to repeat here)
To be clear, I do not think the 'religion' label can be correctly applied to Buddhism. I see it more of a philosophy, and only used the term 'religion' so as not to get bogged down into semantics in the discussion.
My error, and you have my aplogies for any misunderstanding.(again, see my reply to 'FatPhil')
As for Thailand, having spent some time there, the Thai people have their own ideas about a lot of different things, not just religion! It is a very interesting place, full of fascinating history and cultures...some of the cultures REALLY clash.(witness the frequency of political 'coups' that occur in Thailand) So don't make the mistake of painting with too broad a brush there. At the same time, I will not dispute your roomate's stories, either.
No surprise, that has been reality for me these past decades.
To be honest, I couldn't care less about other people thinking I'm weird. Really. What others think about me is so far down on my list of priorities, that it may as well not exist as a line item on the priority list. (see my posting history here, and on /. for supporting evidence for my claim-the words/comments speak for themselves)
BTW, I never made the claim that I was an expert on Buddhism, and was really only addressing that specific troll about some of his misunderstandings, so I was being overly broad-brushed. Had I known I was 'volunteered' to be the acting Dalai Lama's spokesman here, I would have just wrote up a position paper in my journal, and just linked to that. Since that genie escaped the bottle, I have just been doing my best, without going into 'long-winded lecture' mode. My error. :-)