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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @10:20PM
I'll give you the afterlife part, but the rest apply:
church: pro-capitalist schooling
priests: economists who advocate for it
holy texts: Wealth of Nations
rules: oh yes
idols: money, celebrities, the wealthy (especially "new money")
Also, I note you dont refute any of the things on the list wrt buddhism.
Because the argument is that those aren't a valid criteria.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @08:47PM
If those aren't valid criteria, then there's no such thing as religion at all. Money isn't an idol, and celebrities needn't be worshiped as god. There's no One True Holy Book, and the thing you cite as a "holy book" is anything but. Usually religions ask you to follow arbitrary moral rules, rather than describing how economics works. It simply doesn't fit.
And I wouldn't say all indoctrination (pro-capitalist schooling, which we do have) is equivalent to church.