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Big Drop in Share of Americans Calling Themselves Christian
NYT ^ | 5/12/15 | Nate Cohen

Posted on 05/12/2015 7:43:52 AM PDT by Oliviaforever

The Christian share of adults in the United States has declined sharply since 2007, affecting nearly all major Christian traditions and denominations, and crossing age, race and region, according to an extensive survey by the Pew Research Center.

Seventy-one percent of American adults were Christian in 2014, the lowest estimate from any sizable survey to date, and a decline of 5 million adults and 8 percentage points since a similar Pew survey in 2007.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christendom; christianity; faithandphilosophy; popefrancis; romancatholicism; secularization; trends
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To: Oliviaforever

Women and minorities hardest hit ....


21 posted on 05/12/2015 9:48:19 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne (Ted-Cruz-2016 @ Engineering-Excellence.US)
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To: US Navy Vet

2 Thessalonians 2:3King James Version (KJV)

3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.


22 posted on 05/12/2015 10:38:49 AM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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