(November 19, 2012 at 11:32 pm)apophenia Wrote:
Quote:...For these reasons, any numbers estimating the size of the secular demographic are going to be generalizations that fail to fully capture the country's religious diversity. But even the conservative estimate of Secular Americans – 15 percent – represents almost fifty million people, a noteworthy demographic bloc. This is a group that outnumbers the combined populations of American Methodists (about eleven million), Lutherans (nine million), Pentecostals (eight million), Presbyterians (five million), Jews (three million), Episcopalians (three million), Mormons (three million), and Muslims (1.4 million). All of these religious groups together would not outnumber a conservative estimate of America's secular population!
— by David Niose
What they lack in numbers they make up for in ferocity born of desperation. Whether or what a god may be is not high on my priorities but to a true believer there is hardly anything more important. They don't make the best neighbors.
