Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US

gollum123 notes new U.S. demographic data from the Pew Research Center which show that the percentage of Americans declaring affiliation with a particular religion has declined sharply since 2007. Americans identifying as Christian dropped from 78.4% in 2007 to 70.6% in 2014. Those describing themselves as atheist, agnostic, or simple having no affiliation took up most of the slack, rising from 16.1% to 22.8%. Members of non-Christian faiths collectively rose from 4.7% to 5.9%. Despite the overall decline, the demographics within the Christian group are getting much more racially and ethnically diverse. The willingness of respondents to marry outside their religious affiliation is also on the rise. The median age of unaffiliated adults is dropping, while the median ages of mainline Protestants and Catholics are rising. The study estimates that 85% of adults age 70 and over are Christian, while only 56% of adults ages 18-24 are Christian. They also say that each individual generation has shown a slight decrease in religious affiliation compared to their statistics in 2007.

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Re: 23 down, 77 to go

[tempmpi]

There's no reason to be religious in this modern world. People who are religious are idiots and should be treated like second class citizens.

And you are proving that "Religiophobia" can be a religion on its own. You apply exactly the same kind of mechanism that has caused religious wars and other crimes: You want to treat people as second class citizens because you disagree with their world view. You overgeneralize and make a whole population group responsible for the problems caused by some of their members.

Re: 23 down, 77 to go

[XxtraLarGe]

You want to treat people as second class citizens because you disagree with their world view.

I'm not really sure why you see this as a problem. Previously you wrote:

There's no reason to be religious in this modern world. People who are religious are idiots and should be treated like second class citizens.

So it seems that you don't have any problem with treating some groups of people as second class citizens, you just want to change which groups those are.

Tel me...

[Guy From V]

How many people have faith in something as abstract string theory and mock another for belief in anything they classify as religion? How many people will say that extraterrestrial life exists with 100% certainty without an iota of evidence of that fact? I think some people should check that shit, pronto, before they start feeling intellectually superior.

Re:"Social Justice" should be considered a religio

[serviscope_minor]

I was surprised to see that all double blind tests are now showing liberals as more racist than conservatives.

There's no evidence, but it's a statistical fact that people who despise liberals are 573% more likely to invent studies than other people.