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Actually Baptist (12%), Pentecostals(14%), Episcopalian/Anglican (12%) and Seventh Day Adventist (11%) all have higher divorce rates than people who have No religion(9%). The only Christians that have a lower divorce rate than people with No Religion are Born Agains(7%), Lutherans (7%)and Jehovah's Witnesses (6%)

church of Christ statistics? Mennonites?

83 posted on 06/14/2004 6:24:08 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Sorry I am at work and don't have time to format it nicely but here is breakdown


Percentage Divorced or Separated by Selected Religious Group, 1990 - 2001

Name, # of adults 1990, Divorced/
Separated
1990(%), # of adults 2001, Divorced/
Separated
2001(%)

Catholic 46,000,000 8 50,873,000 9
Baptist 33,964,000 11 33,830,000 12
No Religion 14,331,000 11 29,481,000 9
Christian 8,100,000 10 14,190,000 9
Methodist 14,174,000 8 14,140,000 9
Lutheran 9,110,000 8 9,580,000 7
Presbyterian 5,000,000 8 5,596,000 9
Protestant 17,214,000 4,647,000 9
Pentecostal 3,116,000 11 4,407,000 14
Episcopalian/Anglican 3,000,000 10 3,451,000 12
Jewish * 3,137,000 9 2,831,000 7
Mormon 2,487,000 10 2,697,000 8
Churches of Christ 1,800,000 6 2,593,000 9
Non-denominational 195,000 17 2,489,000 9
Congregational/UCC 599,000 8 1,378,000 8
Jehovah's Witnesses 1,400,000 11 1,331,000 6
Assemblies of God 617,000 9 1,105,000 10
Muslim/Islamic 527,000 10 1,104,000 7
Buddhist 401,000 11 1,082,332 8
Evangelical/Born Again 242,000 10 1,032,000 7
Church of God 531,000 944,000 7
Seventh Day Adventist 668,000 12 724,072 11
TOTAL US ADULTS 175,000,000 9 208,000,000 9

*NOTE: Only Jews by religion were tabulated.


89 posted on 06/14/2004 6:45:56 AM PDT by qam1 (Tommy Thompson is a Fat-tubby, Fascist)
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