Pew’s New Analysis: 42% of US Jews Reject their Religion

BIN ^ | 9/2/18 | JNI Media

[Roman_War_Criminal]

The Pew Research Center on Wednesday published an analysis of beliefs and behaviors across denominations that identifies important traits that unite people of different religious affiliations—or divide people who share the same affiliation – producing a new and revealing classification of religion in America (The Religious Typology – A new way to categorize Americans by religion).

The survey divided the US population, represented by 4,699 respondents in late 2017, into seven groups: Sunday Stalwarts – the most religious; God-and-Country Believers – less active in church hold traditional religious beliefs and tilt right politically; Diversely Devout – believe in God “as described in the Bible” as well as in psychics, reincarnation and spiritual energy of physical things; Relaxed Religious – believe in the God of the Bible, and some of them pray daily, but few of them attend religious services; Spiritually Awake – many do not believe in the biblical God, hold some New Age beliefs such as some higher power, rarely attend religious services; Religion Resisters – believe in some higher power or spiritual force but not the God of the Bible, and consider themselves spiritual but not religious, with strongly negative views of organized religion, generally liberal and Democratic in their political views; Solidly Secular – the least religious of the seven groups, relatively affluent, highly educated, mostly white and male, reject all New Age beliefs as well as belief in the God of the Bible or any higher power at all.

[tnlibertarian]

I’ve read the Bible; this is not a new problem.

[daniel1212]

I get the impression that an atheist from an Evangelical family will just be an atheist. That's it. They'd never call themselves Evangelicals. But no matter what you believe--- everything, anything or nothing -- the ex-Catholics and ex-Jews will still be there "identifying" as Catholic and Jews and messing up the Catholic and Jewish statistics.

Being Jewish is usually a matter of ethnicity, or race, which one is born as, a Semite, not necessarily faith, whereas a Catholic is a specific religious identity. As for evangelical, last I looked, some surveys classify respondents as evangelical depending on answers to a few basic questions (as Barna), and or what denomination they belong to (which themselves are classified based upon some general and recognized basic defining aspects), but typically they combine “born again” with “evangelical.”

In the 2005 Baylor Religion Survey, 33.6% of the US population were categorized as Evangelical Protestant by affiliation, but in choosing to affirm titles among many labels to describe their religious identity, and in which more than one could apply, 47.2% choose “Bible-believing,” and 28.5% “Born again,” 17.6% and “Theologically Conservative,” but only 14.9% chose the specific term “Evangelical,” and barely 2% say it is the best description.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Interesting. Thank you for this more detailed religious taxonomy.

I am looking for someone who will permit me to identify as an Anarcho-Monarchial Libertarian-Medievalist.

[daniel1212]

Interesting. Thank you for this more detailed religious taxonomy. I am looking for someone who will permit me to identify as an Anarcho-Monarchial Libertarian-Medievalist.

Maybe Facebook.

[Albion Wilde]

I can't help thinking Rabbis have a mysterious inner affinity with Irish Girls.

Finally making time today to catch up with some of my pings, like this one. Thanks for that! Amazing to hear the Irish language sung like that—usually it's plaintive ballads. I guess the oldest songs in the mostly-dead ancient languages have a certain je ne sais quoi similarity—staccato rhythm and repetition highly favored. I notice that repetition is also highly favored in contemporary ebonics, chiefly 3- to 5-word phrases repeated over and over at top volume.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Wanna talk about old songs from mostly-dead ancient languages: here's an only slightly updated primitive from the Orkney Isles:

"Song of the Eel"

[Albion Wilde]

"Song of the Eel"

Wow, that is stunning! To me, that song has a much clearer tie to what we in this generation think of as traditional Irish folk music. You can almost hear someone sitting by himself on a rocky crag, with no accompaniment but the crashing waves and echoes off the stones. Thank you so much. Are you especially into Irish music, or was that a passing find?

I looked up this one, which is an old favorite of mine. An homogenized version was popularized to some extent back in the late 60s by Joan Baez:

The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry

It's the legend of a mythological sea creature, the Great Silkie, creating a baby with an Irish maiden... with a tragic ending.