The Second-Largest Religion in Each State

Washington Post ^ | June 4 | Reid Wilson

[nickcarraway]

Christianity is by far the largest religion in the United States; more than three-quarters of Americans identify as Christians. A little more than half of us identify as Protestants, about 23 percent as Catholic and about 2 percent as Mormon.

But what about the rest of us? In the Western U.S., Buddhists represent the largest non-Christian religious bloc in most states. In 20 states, mostly in the Midwest and South, Islam is the largest non-Christian faith tradition. And in 15 states, mostly in the Northeast, Judaism has the most followers after Christianity. Hindus come in second place in Arizona and Delaware, and there are more practitioners of the Baha’i faith in South Carolina than anyone else.

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All these data come from the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, which conducts a U.S. Religion Census every 10 years. Here’s what their map of the second-most-practiced religions looks like:

[patriot08]

You nailed it, Biggirl.

[Sheapdog]

I think you have them confused with Episcopalians.

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Haha

Your right in that much of liberal Christianity and Catholicism does exactly the same and looks forward to the same false delusions that will be consummated in the Anti-Christ and a false millennial hope and change.

[The Grammarian]

Arabic-speaking Christians refer to God as Allah, and I assure you they don’t mean the Enemy.

[Biggirl]

In truth the proper name of God is: Yahweh, not allah.

[The Grammarian]

In truth, demonizing Arabic-speaking Christians because they use the Arabic word for ‘God’ is silly.

[Biggirl]

Who knows, they may have been forced to say it in the Arabic.