(October 9, 2012 at 12:39 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2...ck_check=1
Quote:For decades, America's majority religious brand has been "Protestant." No more.
In the 1960s, two in three Americans called themselves Protestant. Now, the Protestant group -- both evangelical and mainline -- has slid below the statistical waters, down to 48 percent from 53 percent in 2007.
Where did the Protestants go? Nowhere, actually. They didn't switch to a new religious brand, they just let go of any faith affiliation or label.
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released an analytic study today, "Nones on the Rise," that shows one in five Americans (19.3 percent) now claims no religious identity. That's up from 15.3 percent in 2007.
This group, called "nones," is now the nation's next-largest category after Catholics and outnumbers the top Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptists. The shift is a significant cultural, religious and even political change.
The sooner the current generation of jesus freaks dies out the better off we'll all be!
I get what you are saying but when you put it like that it sounds to the fundy like "you want to use government genocide to get rid of us" I know that is not what you mean, but some fundy dipshits will buy and sell that childish fear.
No, but just like no one buys into segregation anymore, it took old age for those bigots to die out and give way to more compassionate youth who didn't buy into that bullshit.
I think all one has to do to foster more political diversity is simply remind younger people of "no religious test". It blows away the argument that one has to claim some oath to some sect of Christianity to hold office. That is patently false and was never the case, which is why we have Jews two Muslims and an Atheist in our congress.
Time is on the side of pluralism and the age of theocracy is rightfully dying out as an idea. Christians don't have to go away, but they are not intitled to a monopoly of what constituts the meaning of being a citizen.
