Posted on 03/12/2025 12:27:59 PM PDT by aimhigh
Among the 34 largest U.S. metro areas surveyed, the Portland-Vancouver region stands out as the only place where nonreligious people outnumber Christians, according to the Pew Research Center’s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study.
Surveying more than 35,000 Americans across all 50 states, the study provides a detailed analysis of religious affiliation and spiritual practices nationwide.
“The study was designed to capture people’s religious identity, their beliefs and practices, as well as things related to their spiritual beliefs and practices and experiences,” said Becka Alper, a senior researcher at Pew Research Center. “We wanted to get a really broad assessment of that, and that’s in part because U.S. Census data doesn’t ask about religion.”
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
Please send missionaries.
This is what made it easy for the Aunt Teefus fascists to take over.
Paganism is the main religion in Portland. Serving the Lord in the belly of the beast.
I don’t know what more than 35,000 is exactly, but a small sample I think.
Christian 42%
Non religious 44%
Other religions 13%
Chart in article compares Portland to other cities.
‘Non religious, 44%’ Something must have happened, in a big way, or we wouldn’t be here. I don’t see how otherwise.
Explains a lot. Dealing with people out that way usually leaves me with a feeling of weirdness on their part. Something’s missing in their demeanor, speech, character, etc. I couldn’t put my finger on it, maybe that explains it. Folks on the eastern side of those states in the PAC West appear much more “normal” if that makes sense.
| city | Religiously unaffiliated | Other Religions | Christian |
| Portland-Vancouver | 44% | 13% | 42% |
| San Francisco | 42% | 11% | 46% |
| San Diego | 40% | 6% | 54% |
| Boston | 40% | 12% | 47% |
| Denver | 39% | 7% | 54% |
| Columbus | 39% | 7% | 54% |
| Austin | 36% | 8% | 56% |
| Baltimore | 36% | 9% | 55% |
| Las Vegas | 34% | 61% |
It’s the same way in Western washington. Everything around Puget Sound is anti-religious, while everything to the south and east seem to me much more normal.
Portland is where people move because Berkeley is too conservative.
Keep in mind, “non-religion” is just as much a religion as any other.
Oregoons
Explains why Portland’s such a mess.
Hey that was my line!
And very true!
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: “Nearly half (47%) of its adults are “nones,” holding to no particular religion at all. That’s the same percentage as Los Angeles county.”
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2017/02/why-is-cedar-rapids-so-godless/
Marxism/Socialism was not listed
It is a religion. It’s actually a heretical form of twisted Christianity.
That helps to explain the Covidian hysteria.
When you live and believe in this life only...
There was a period when I would drive from Olympia Wash. to a church in Portland every Sunday.
It was instantly unanimous, Oregon.
Portland is chock full of Wiccans and other lunatics so the societal rot is off the charts there.
Not always. Sometimes it's because Santa Cruz is to normal...
Awful mess.
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