Look at New England. I live in Massachusetts. It’s practically a wasteland. I had to change churches a few years ago — an elderly, and very Christian pastor retired and was replaced by a left-wing, green, lesbian who clearly did not see Christ as a Savior. Took us months to find a new church with a Bible-centered mission.
Maybe the Catholics could post a few more stories about Protestants to the Religion Forum :)
That's because they do 25% of the talking. :)
Misleading...I don’t see the God haters and heathens representing the Democrat party and Muslims here....
I grew up in Manhattan in the mid-60s. My family was Catholic and we knew a lot of Jewish people. I was aware of this religious difference mostly because of some kids getting days off from Public School because of the Jewish Holidays.
When I was in second grade (in Catholic school) we read in our social studies book that most Americans were Protestant. This was disturbing news to me because I had never heard that word before.
Imagine, learning that MOST of your fellow citizens were something you’d never even heard of.
When we got out of school that day I asked my mom “What’s a Protestant?” And she looked at me shocked and said “You don’t know?!?!?”
Oooh boy, I was really up the creek on this Protestant thing!
Then she said “Oh, of course you don’t know, there aren’t anymore Protestants around here any more.” Then she sort of explained it to me. A few years later my friend introduced me to the tales of Henry VIII and the history started to fall into place.
I had to laugh seeing this thread, I’ll never forget that day. Aside from the day JFK was killed that was pretty much the most confused I’d been up to that point in my life.
I notice that somewhere between 20 and 30 percent of the population consider themselves to be evangelical (another hard to define term) and that may be what people are picking up on when they estimate the percentage of Protestants to be in that range.
Or they may be thinking of the number of mainline, non-evangelical protestants which is roughly the same, though it declines as the Evangelical and unbelieving populations increase.
Add the Evangelicals and the other, mainstream Protestants together and you get the total Protestant population.
FWIW, I notice your map doesn't count Mormons as Protestants. I suppose that's true doctrinally, though those who don't belong to either group sometimes have a different impression.
In all fairness, leftists are very adept at joining organizations with the intent of subverting their purpose to the leftist agenda. Any organization and every organization.
They have successfully done this in most religions in the US, and only after years are finally now being countered by religious schism, by the faithful in those religions rejecting the infiltration and the agenda, who split off from the religion and take their money and resources and faith with them for a reformed version.
But at the same time, this creates the impression that there are far more *believing* faithful than there actually are.
Call them PINOs if you like, Protestants In Name Only.
But their faith is not in religion but in the leftist agenda, so they truly neither believe in their articles of their denomination, or even in God for that matter. They continually afford to pretend that the doctrines of their church are identical to those of the left, despite all evidence and history to the contrary.
So how many *real* Protestants, Catholics and Jews are there in the US? Good question. But I suspect the real number may be closer to the “underestimation” than not.
It is 75% horse and buggy Old Order Amish. The surrounding counties are heavily Mennonite and other versions of Old Order Amish. You can tell by the pattern of the dresses on the women and the hats on the men.
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Every TV show has a token gay person on it now, so it’s easy to presume that 20% of the population is gay if one is getting one’s impression of the world through watching TV.
Very interesting. I’m surprised that there aren’t more Southern counties with a majority of United Methodist congregants.