[NYer]

Nearly one-third of American adults (31.7%) say they were raised Catholic.

Raised Catholic? That definitely requires more definition.

The secularist community may be growing but at the first sign of disaster, they will be the first ones to run into an abandoned church and ask for God's mercy.

Ping!

[chajin]

Racial and ethnic minorities now make up 41% of Catholics, for example, up from 35% in 2007.

The same could have been said in the late 1800s, except that the phrase "Racial and ethnic minorities" would at that time have meant Irish, Italians, and Poles. As the percentages of Latinos and Asians in the US population grows over the next generation or so, the alteration of perception as to what is a "racial and ethnic minority" will also occur, as it did in the early 20th century with the Irish, Italians, Poles, and other non-English/French/German Europeans.

[originalbuckeye]

‘’Islam showed the greatest gains’

Is ANYONE surprisd by this?? When the pResident promotes Islam, his minions will convert. His plan is coming along nicely.

[EBH]

“Democrats Deny Christ & Israel 3 Times”
https://youtu.be/2HUJO0MZOzs

And we’re surprised ...?

[Alex Murphy]

Christianity, especially Catholicism, Pew reports, has been losing more adherents through "religious switching" than it has been gaining. "More than 85% of American adults were raised Christian, but nearly a quarter of those who were raised Christian no longer identify with Christianity," it says. Within Christianity the greatest net losses, by far, have been experienced by Catholics. Nearly one-third of American adults (31.7%) say they were raised Catholic. Among that group, fully 41% no longer identify with Catholicism. This means that 12.9% of American adults are former Catholics, while just 2% of U.S. adults have converted to Catholicism from another religious tradition. No other religious group in the survey has such a lopsided ratio of losses to gains. Though Pew found that the Catholic Church in America has lost almost three percentage points during the seven years since the last survey, it admits that its numbers may be off...

Speaking of the last survey:

Catholics are leaving the faith at four times the rate that newcomers are joining. "Religious change is not simply a function of retention; it's a function of recruitment. It's both sides of the ledger," explains the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life's Greg Smith. "In no other religious groups we looked at did we see this high a ratio people leaving versus joining."
-- from the 2009 thread Does the American Catholic Church Have a Numbers Problem?

No other religion in the United States has lost more members to other faiths, or to no faith at all, than Catholicism, according to the new survey released by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. The survey, conducted in 2007, found that 31 percent of Americans were raised Catholic, but less than 25 per cent of them still identify as Catholic. Roughly 10 percent of all Americans have strayed from Catholic roots, the study reported.....
-- from the 2008 thread Study: Catholics losing the faith

[jsanders2001]

Its because Satan has waged a huge propganda war using his false god, PC, and culture:

[jsanders2001]

Its because Satan has waged a huge propganda war using his false god, PC, and culture:

[circlecity]

Sounds like God is just separating the wheat from the tares. There will always be exactly many Christians as God elects.

[N. Theknow]

Not surprising with the number of churches embracing homosexuality as normal and the number of people, who being totally ignorant of God's law, accepting homosexual marriage as a "right."

Pillars of salt coming right up.

[LouAvul]

Any nation that murders ~2 million unborn children each year; any nation that exalts those vile human beings known as homosexuals; any nation that encourages lawlessness such as in Baltimore; sorry, none of those characteristics are Christian and America is not a Christian nation.

Are there Christians living in this country? Definitely. But America is not a Christian nation.

[Resolute Conservative]

More people are leaving apostate churches not Jesus. Churches that have embraced homosexuality, promiscuity, and turn a blind eye to pedophilia have seen their pews emptying.

[NorthMountain]

If America were a Christian nation in any meaningful sense, we wouldn’t be talking about “President 0bama”. We probably wouldn’t even be talking about “Senator 0bama” or, for that matter, “President McCain” or “President Romney”.

[Dick Bachert]

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