The decline in church membership continues:
Some context vis-a-vis other groups:
Two points: evangelicals are a major portion of Trump's base, and they along with Catholics are the two most stridently anti-gay factions in the country.
Read the article -- it's fairly brief and pretty interesting.
Via Joe.My.God.
Parting thought:
In a shift that stands to impact both religion and politics, survey data suggests that the percentage of Americans who don’t affiliate with any specific religious tradition is now roughly the same as those who identify as evangelical or Catholic.
According to newly released General Social Survey data analyzed by Ryan P. Burge of Eastern Illinois University, Americans claiming “no religion” — sometimes referred to as “nones” because of how they answer the question “what is your religious tradition?” — now represent about 23.1 percent of the population, up from 21.6 percent in 2016. People claiming evangelicalism, by contrast, now represent 22.5 percent of Americans, a slight dip from 23.9 percent in 2016.
That makes the two groups statistically tied with Catholics (23 percent) as the largest religious — or nonreligious — groupings in the country.
Some context vis-a-vis other groups:
The 2018 GSS was just released and there's some big news. Those of "no religion" (23.1%) are statistically the same size as evangelicals (22.8%). There was also a small resurgence of mainline Protestants, while Catholics are down 3% in the last four years. pic.twitter.com/uiyDSe7M6f
— Ryan Burge 📊 (@ryanburge) March 20, 2019
Two points: evangelicals are a major portion of Trump's base, and they along with Catholics are the two most stridently anti-gay factions in the country.
Read the article -- it's fairly brief and pretty interesting.
Via Joe.My.God.
Parting thought:
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