Posted on 09/09/2018 12:03:07 PM PDT by daniel1212
Most U.S. adults identify with a particular religious denomination or group. They describe themselves as Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Jewish, Mormon or Muslim– to name just a few...
The new typology sorts Americans into seven groups based on the religious and spiritual beliefs they share, how actively they practice their faith, the value they place on their religion, and the other sources of meaning and fulfillment in their lives...
Sunday Stalwarts are the most religious group. Not only do they actively practice their faith, but they also are deeply involved in their religious congregations. God-and-Country Believers are less active in church groups or other religious organizations, but, like Sunday Stalwarts, they hold many traditional religious beliefs and tilt right on social and political issues. They are the most likely of any group to see immigrants as a threat. Racial and ethnic minorities make up a relatively large share of the Diversely Devout, who are diverse not only demographically, but also in their beliefs. It is the only group in which solid majorities say they believe in God “as described in the Bible” as well as in psychics, reincarnation and spiritual energy located in physical things.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, the Solidly Secular are the least religious of the seven groups. These relatively affluent, highly educated U.S. adults – mostly white and male – tend to describe themselves as neither religious nor spiritual and to reject all New Age beliefs as well as belief in the God of the Bible.1 In fact, many do not believe in a higher power at all. Religion Resisters, on the other hand, largely do believe in some higher power or spiritual force (but not the God of the Bible), and many have some New Age beliefs and consider themselves spiritual but not religious. At the same time, members of this group express strongly negative views of organized religion, saying that churches have too much influence in politics and that, overall, religion does more harm than good. Both of these nonreligious typology groups are generally liberal and Democratic in their political views.
The middle two groups straddle the border between the highly religious and the nonreligious. Seven-in-ten Relaxed Religious Americans say they believe in the God of the Bible, and four-in-ten pray daily. But relatively few attend religious services or read scripture, and they almost unanimously say it is not necessary to believe in God to be a moral person. All Spiritually Awake Americans hold at least some New Age beliefs (views rejected by most of the Relaxed Religious) and believe in God or some higher power, though many do not believe in the biblical God and relatively few attend religious services on a weekly basis...
Among the highly religious typology groups, the religious identity profiles of Sunday Stalwarts and God-and-Country Believers are very similar. Majorities in each group are Protestant, and evangelical Protestantism constitutes the single largest religious tradition in both groups. Compared with Sunday Stalwarts, God-and-Country Believers include more Catholics (24% vs. 13%) and religiously unaffiliated Americans (8% vs. 1%), and somewhat fewer Mormons (less than 1% vs. 5%).
Compared with the other two highly religious groups, the Diversely Devout include fewer Protestants and more unaffiliated people, often called “nones.” (“Nones” is an umbrella category composed of U.S. adults who identify, religiously, as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular.”..
No single typology group constitutes a majority of any Christian tradition. Evangelical Protestants are more likely to fall into the Sunday Stalwarts category (36%) than into any other typology group. Mainline Protestants, Catholics and members of the historically black Protestant tradition, meanwhile, are even more spread across several religious typology groups, showing a range of religious beliefs and behaviors within these traditions. For example, no more than a quarter of Catholics are in any single typology group.
Jewish Americans are the only religious group with substantial contingents at each end of the typology. About one-in-five U.S. Jews are Sunday Stalwarts (21%), while 28% are Solidly Secular. Still others are Religion Resisters (17%) or Relaxed Religious (14%).4
Pew Research Center, extreme left wing propaganda outfit.
Judism is a belief system, not a race. There are divisions in that general religion, but “Secular Jew” is a phrase that makes no sense at all.
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Take this poll Pew .. how many 'tax payers', are in favor of funding fake religious charities that fill their treasuries for human trafficking?
The majority of Americans have no clue they are being charged to the tune of billions so fake religions can traffic illegal aliens.
Judaism is a belief system which transcends race, however, Definition of Jew by Merriam-Webster is - a person belonging to a continuation through descent or conversion of the ancient Jewish people.
Hitler certainly did not care whether they were religious or not.
[racial minorities] It is the only group … [that] … believe in God “as described in the Bible” as well as in psychics, reincarnation and spiritual energy located in physical things.
The contradictions in their belief system are rather glaring. The only way to fix this is to admit more of them to medical schools or hire them as air traffic controllers.
Just like Islam.
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
The Godless want “THE GOVERNMENT” to do more to solve societal ill’s . Godlessness == liberalism .
Wrong. It can't be plainer than knowing that one is a Jew when born of a Jewish mother who is a descendant of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whether he/she practices the religion of the culture or not.
A proselyte to the religion of Jews can be reckoned as a descendant of Jacob by first (for a male) suffering circumcision, or (for a female) ritual cleansing in the mikvah; followed by suffering ritual cleansing (a second time for the female) to shed allegiance to heathenish ways and commit oneslef to the Jesish culture. However, one's children born before conversion are not reckoned as descendants of Jacob.
The above is my understanding of what comprises the Jewish race. You can look this up in the Jewish Encyclopdeia.
“Judism is a belief system, not a race. There are divisions in that general religion, but “Secular Jew” is a phrase that makes no sense at all.”
The word “Jew” was first used for the descendants of Judah. That title wasn’t a term meant to describe the religious practices of the individual. Many “Jews” were and still are secular and or non-practicing of the religion of Judaism. The title “Jew” stuck with the descendants of Israel and has been used every since.
Thank you!
Please, can you let me know if you think this is accurate? Especially irt the apparent timing of the start of the RCC.
Thanks for your time. KR
Well, I cannot provide all the specifics, but it seems overall accurate based on my quite limited knowledge, but I can say that besides many Anabaptists contending that they preceded the Reformation, this tree is misses the split in 451 A.D. of the basic Coptic Church from the Roman Catholic Church, with the former affirming the Nicene Creed but not agreeing with the Christological formulation of the Council of Chalcedon. And led to more splintering.
Another "tree"
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptism)
And as regards the apparent timing of the start of the RCC, there is no specific date for this since it was a matter of progressive deformation which took place beginning with the death of the apostles, though heresies began before. Early Catholicism battled Arianism yet increased resorted to invoking Tradition, likely since Arianism selectively accepted and used Scripture. And rather than sticking to that as the sure supreme standard then Tradition took upon a life of its own. However, while men such as the apostles could speak and write as wholly inspired of God, Rome admits that its popes and councils to do not in declaring what it the word of God. And Catholic and Orthodox substantially disagree somewhat about what Scripture and Tradition teach.
And John evidentially was combating the heretical doctrine of Docetism (associated with the Gnostics) that Jesus had no actual human body (it only appearing to be human) and thus his sufferings and death on the cross were apparent rather than real. The word Docetism is taken from a Greek word meaning “to appear.” Docetism main concept was that Christ only appeared to have a body, that He was a phantom and not a man. It was adopted by the Ebionites (Jewish Christian) and the Gnostics (Gentile Christians).
Early Catholicism battled this yet adopted the fantasy of their Eucharistic Christ, which (after their priest utters "This is my body....blood") only appears to be bread and wine (which have ceased to exist) - despite appearance - but are really the true body and blood of Christ, complete in each particle. Until the non-existent bread and or wine begins to manifest (appearance now being critical, since in reality decay has been ongoing at the molecular level).
And Rome and Catholicism also began to take upon the form of the empire in which it stood, and to use its means. See https://peacebyjesus.net/deformation_of_new_testament_church.html#historical
Yet since the apostasy of Catholicism was not complete, but amidst its inventions the salvific truth of the gospel remains and one need not know much to be saved, then since "The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit" (Psalms 34:18) who believes and will confess the Divine Lord Jesus, that Christ died for us and that God hath raised him from the dead, (Romans 10:9) then a remnant of regenerate of simple contrite faith and piety did and can exist. And since regeneration is how the NT church has its members, (1 Cor. 12:13) then the church still persevered as the body of Christ, as a relative remnant it still is. To the glory and praise of God.
Hope this helps. http://peacebyjesus.net
God bless you!
This is very helpful and, as always, I really appreciate your effort - now especially, on a personal level.
I will read and re-read your response so that I may understand it completely.
One quick reaction - I’d like to see a “tree” that shows mainline Christianity (THE Church, without any denomination label) as a line that runs straight, right down the middle of the diagram and portrays all the “religious affiliations and denominations” branching away from it.
Thank you so much! and Happy Resurrection Day!
KR
I have not see one, neither one that shows the "one true Catholic schism or sect."
Based on this post by a RC (https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3755297/posts?page=6#6) but expanded, we have these camps (incomplete list):
1. Those that believe Francis is pope but a heretic.
2. Those who reject Francis as pope, and even as a Catholic (referred to by some as "Bergoglio the Heretic;" who "preaches and authors heresy;" being "the material and formal heretic;" this fraud of a pope; “an apostate,” "not a Catholic;" "Pope Frank..protestant;" "The Impopester;" "The Ecumenical Mass of Bergoglio is straight out of Hell;" "...for which our poor, beleaguered pontiff is nothing more than the ultimate poster boy") Incomplete list.
3. Those who held that Ratzinger was the last valid pope, and not have no living pope.
4. Those that believe disagree with the Pope but are unwilling to go all the way and call him a heretic.
5. Church Militant types that chastise the Bishops but did not do so to the Pope (subject to change).
6. Supporters of "The Wanderer."
7. Supporters of the brother of the publisher of The Wanderer who disowned The Wanderer.
8. The SSPX
9. Those that believe the SSPX is a valid Catholic organization but aren't members.
10. Those who believe the SSPX is in apostasy
11. Those that believe Francis is a false pope and that Ratizinger is (was) the pope, but now have no living pope.
12. The SSPV who reject modern popes and that John XXIII was the first anti-pope or non-Pope and that the Second Vatican Council is invalid
13. Those that believe the SSPV is a valid Catholic organization but aren't members.
14. Those who believe the SSPV is in apostasy.
15. Followers of pope Michael (of Kansas)
16. Followers of Pope Linus II (of England)
17. Followers of Pope Pius XIII (died),
18. Followers of Pope Alexander IX of Argentina
19. Those who also believe the Church is now completely controlled by (name conspiracy).
20. Those who believe it matters little who is pope or what one believes as long as they love the Catholic Mary and receive the Eucharist once a while, vote for liberals, and are in favor of women priests, and are averse to TradCaths, with some accusing them of being like Protestant (evangelicals - since they also make the veracity of church teaching subject their own judgment of what past church teaching consists of and means (but for classic evangelicals past church teaching Scripture is the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed). Both liberal and TradCaths consider evangelicals to be their enemies, despite or because those who most strongly esteem Scripture as the accurate and wholly inspired word of God, with its basic literal hermeneutic, have long testified to being far more conservative and unified in polled core beliefs and values than overall those whom Rome counts as members in life and in death
Your diligence amazes me!
PM
KR
Thank God for what is good, but I see that #3 and #11 are duplicates.
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