(July 1, 2015 at 9:18 am)Drich Wrote: You do understand what it means in the poll header when it says (based on 3792 adults) right? Not even 3792 couples, just 3792 adults out of 2.2 billion Christians/31.5% of the world's population as of july 2013.
Are you so foolish as to think that 3800 people in or around Ventura, Ca. accurately represent the world's population of Christians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_re...opulations
If you want to know the US Christian divorce rate then just google it.
when you do articals like this come up:
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/reli...ians_N.htm
which seem to take it's cues from this:
http://www.focusonthefamily.com/about_us...world.aspx
If you can be bother to read something that out right disagrees with you and the 3800 people in or around ventura Ca poll surveyed then know the North American Christian divorce rate is about 35%
It might help if you actually understood what was being argued in the articles you linked. My case still stands. The USA Today's criticism of the Barna study wasn't the sample, but a disagreement on the definition differentiating born again and Evangelical Christians.
The rest amounts to a no true Scotsman fallacy.
Your criticism of the Barna study comes across as suggesting that Ventura Christians aren't true Christians. It doesn't matter though since your assertion that the Barna study only sampled the local Ventura population is simply false. But, please don't let facts get in your way.
Quote:This report is based upon telephone interviews conducted by The Barna Group with a random sample of 5017 adults selected from across the continental United States, age 18 and older, from January 2007 through January 2008.https://www.barna.org/barna-update/artic...ZPsOxtVhBc
Your claim was that Christians do much better than everyone else when it comes to divorce. I have demonstrated that this isn't true. The rest of your defense (the Focus On The Family article) attempts to differentiate serious/true Christians from the rest of the flock to make the numbers look better.
Quote:Professor Bradley Wright, a sociologist at the University of Connecticut, explains from his analysis of people who identify as Christians but rarely attend church, that 60 percent of these have been divorced. Of those who attend church regularly, 38 percent have been divorced.
Quote:Nominally attending conservative Protestants are 20 percent more likely to divorce, compared to secular Americans.
Notice that the 38% divorce rate of those regularly attending is still higher than the number reported by the Barna study. Your claim is still factually incorrect.
