Posted on 11/03/2015 1:10:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Americans with no religious affiliation have supplanted Catholics as the largest such group in the Democratic Party, according to a new Pew Research study set to be released on Tuesday.
“Nones,†as the religiously unaffiliated are called, make up 28% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning adults, Pew’s Religious Landscape Survey found, compared with 19% in 2007, the last time it studied the issue.
Christians overall still make up a majority of the Democratic Party, 63%. Catholics comprised 21% of the party as of 2014, down from 24% in 2007, the Pew study concluded.
Evangelicals remain by far the largest single religious group in the Republican Party, with a 38% share. But nones have grown in the GOP ranks, too, to 14% of the party in 2014, compared with 10% in 2007, the study found. Pew surveyed more than 35,000 adults by phone for the study.
The impact of the nones on politics “remains to be seen, since at least to this point, religious nones really punch below their weight, politically speaking,†said Greg Smith, the primary researcher on the Pew study. “They’re less engaged in the political process.â€
The overwhelming majority of Americans say they belong to a religion, though the study shows a drop in the share of Americans who do so—76.5% in 2014, compared with 83% in 2007.
Still, the total number of religious Americans has remained stable. Their share has decreased because the number of nonreligious Americans has grown.
Nones—who include not only atheists and agnostics, but people who may believe in God but have no specific religious affiliation—have grown as an overall share of the American population, to 23% of the total, compared with 16% seven years earlier, according to research that Pew released earlier this year.
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Well, that is good we could use some more Nuns in religious orders.
OH, Never mind!
This is an article that takes a different look at this titled 4 Reasons Christianity Isn’t Actually Dying by Haydn Shaw http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2015/10/14/4-reasons-christianity-isnt-actually-dying/37921
Talk about a huge assumption. How are people who don't affiliate with a specific denomination, or who are agnostic or even atheistic, supposed to feel on political issues? Are they supposed to be liberal? Are they supposed to be happy with the de-Christianization of America? The assumption that voters who don't affiliate with a specific denomination or who aren't religious have a unified political view is amazingly wrong-headed.
These studies never group Democrats in the most appropriate categories: those who knowingly serve Satan, or those who unknowingly serve Satan. The religion they choose (not) to profess matters little, as the fundamentals of their beliefs can be summed up into those two categories.
It would make a lot more sense to break out the atheists and agnostics into their own group. It doesn't make sense to include those who believe in God but are unaffiliated with those who don't or may not believe.
What is going on in Europe now is only helping. We are in a different boat where as our invaders are at least Christian, generally. Obama wants to change that and has brought in millions of inbreds from the Middle East and Northern African as Refugees. They automatically get welfare and a pathway to citizenship
I assume he is talking about politicians only, but even then I would say the Democrats while not categorizing themselves as “nones” share the same values, or lack thereof, as do the Democrats who claim the classification of “nones”. So that statement is wrong when considering the Democrats.
Nones...no skin in the game, no skin to lose.....future islamists.....sounds about right for both parties
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