Now what?

[Drich]

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.

I've seen you say intelligent things before so I know you are only pretending to be really stupid here. If you are really this stupid then I appologise for not hand feeding you the information. I sometimes forget the depths in which a bias mind will ignore info to save face. Silly me I thought by just providing you the info you would see the truth. But it seems you are bent on looking for excuses to ignore it.

I gave you two links, because I know what the article said. the second link provides the denominational divisions and their subsequent divorce rates. I tied those two links together by saying the USA today article is directly quoting the numbers from the second link which aside from hardcore prodestants the divorce rates are sharply lower across the board in Christian and jewish house holds in the US.

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.

OMG, Seriously.. your survey polled 3800 people meaning 1400 couples.. which means the numbers/percentages have been over inflated, but lets say the Barna poll represents 3800 couples... Now if their were only 4000 Christians in the US this poll would be very accurate. But their's not only 4000 Christians in the US. depending on which poll you believe 71 to 85% of the US population Identifies themselves as Christian. So the next question in that stone head of your SHOULD be How many people in the US. As of 2014 318.9 BILLION people of which lets say 71% are Christian that would mean (give or take) 2,264,900,000 Christians in the US... Now oh, great thinker how can you say 3800 people are an accurate cross section of almost a two and a quarter billion people???
Your Poll is junk. It plays to mindless douche bags like you who are way too lazy/not able to see through it!

Understand a poll can say anything you want it to say if you ask the right and right number of people. a small number means an intentional slant.

Open your eyes play'Doh! you failed here. Everything you said was wrong, but on the bright side it is what people who want to denigrate marriage and all God would have it stand for, want you to think.. So that means you are a good rank in file 'thinker.'

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

not according to the chart you posted.. and even so is a 1,000,000 people a good representation of what 2.25 billion people do and think?

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.

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.

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.
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you are really scraping the bottom of the barrel with these quotes..