White Christians no longer comprise majority of U.S. population

[Brian63]

https://www.aol.com/…/study-white-christians-no-l…/23199532/

“A recent study suggests that white Christians no longer comprise the majority of the U.S. population.

The researchers, who referenced a 2016 Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) survey involving 101,000 Americans, found that the long-time majority group now only constitutes 43 percent of the nation.

About 40 years ago, those identifying as both white and Christian accounted for roughly 80 percent of respondents.”

“It appears there are also increasing numbers of Americans who don’t affiliate with any specific religion. Over the past three decades, that population segment has jumped from 7 percent to 24 percent.”

Good job, A-Team! (atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, nontheists, whomever) An especially big thanks to our old buddy, Satan, for helping to make this happen. The End Times are certainly upon us now (like they have not been for the past several millennia, despite people claiming they were then too).

Brian

 

[iolo]

What on earth has skin-shade to do with religion, particularly the more advanced kinds? American racism is really all-pervasive, isn't it?

 

[Keith&Co.]

What on earth has skin-shade to do with religion...?

Everything, here.
When we read 'To Kill A Mockingbird' in school, there's a scene where Scout attends a black church and is amazed at the differences between their worship and what she's used to.
Half my classmates were Mormon, and had been taught that black skin was god's punishment, and were amazed that there even WERE black churches. Why weren't they forced into 'real' churches? they asked.

 

[iolo]

What on earth has skin-shade to do with religion...?

Everything, here.
When we read 'To Kill A Mockingbird' in school, there's a scene where Scout attends a black church and is amazed at the differences between their worship and what she's used to.
Half my classmates were Mormon, and had been taught that black skin was god's punishment, and were amazed that there even WERE black churches. Why weren't they forced into 'real' churches? they asked.

I've never lived in a racist country in the sense you take for granted, and 'black' Christians here are just like us Cymry a couple of generations back. The bloody Mormons, in the records they keep in their mountain, have my great-great (think it is) grandmother dieing at eighteen, unmarried, rather than having six children then going to Patagonia with three of them. I don't exist, therefore, and my criticisms are imaginary!

 

[Keith&Co.]

I've never lived in a racist country in the sense you take for granted,

That is the biggest problem. It's SO pervasive, and so normalized, many cannot see it.

 

[iolo]

I've never lived in a racist country in the sense you take for granted,

That is the biggest problem. It's SO pervasive, and so normalized, many cannot see it.

Deep commiserations. It is wonderful that so many Americans stand up to it so well! I wish more of our people stood up to our mental diseases!

 

[funinspace]

That is the biggest problem. It's SO pervasive, and so normalized, many cannot see it.

Deep commiserations. It is wonderful that so many Americans stand up to it so well! I wish more of our people stood up to our mental diseases!

Well, it should be noted that this 'white nationalism' where people are bugged by the idea that whites are no longer going to be dominant in the US, is held largely in the evangelical/fundamentalist Christian circles. And this group is roughly and only about 25% of American Christians. The rest are mostly Roman Catholic and mainstream Protestant, by large generalized categories. And most of them are not so sensitive to skin shades, not that they aren't also quite segregated in their places of worship. Though again, I think the RCs are at least more integrated within white and Hispanic categories (at least where the general populations also are commingled).

 

[fromderinside]

I wish more of our people stood up to our mental diseases!

You mean like alcoholism or excessive vowelishness? jk (after dismal elswhere no saints though)

 

[Lion IRC]

...Good job, A-Team! (atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, nontheists, whomever)

Is it mainly the 'white' Christians you're targeting?
Black atheist versus white Christian?
I don't get it. What's the deal?

...and I wanna see the stats for albino Christians please.

 

[Keith&Co.]

If you live within a tyranny, but agree with the tyrant, you'll think yourself free.
Others might have a teensy quibble with your position.

 

[Ramaraksha]

https://www.aol.com/…/study-white-christians-no-l…/23199532/

“A recent study suggests that white Christians no longer comprise the majority of the U.S. population.

The researchers, who referenced a 2016 Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) survey involving 101,000 Americans, found that the long-time majority group now only constitutes 43 percent of the nation.

About 40 years ago, those identifying as both white and Christian accounted for roughly 80 percent of respondents.”

“It appears there are also increasing numbers of Americans who don’t affiliate with any specific religion. Over the past three decades, that population segment has jumped from 7 percent to 24 percent.”

Good job, A-Team! (atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, nontheists, whomever) An especially big thanks to our old buddy, Satan, for helping to make this happen. The End Times are certainly upon us now (like they have not been for the past several millennia, despite people claiming they were then too).

Brian

lol death & destruction is how we know God is coming - i guess when there is peace and prosperity we know Satan has come
Fantastic how religion can brainwash the best of us

 

[blastula]

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSeDvZaz4nU[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Underseer]

What on earth has skin-shade to do with religion, particularly the more advanced kinds? American racism is really all-pervasive, isn't it?

A majority of Christians are white conservative racists. The fact that they are no longer the majority is of great concern to racist conservative white Christians. To them this is the end of the world and the reason so many of them turned to Trump and white supremacist groups.

 

[Kharakov]

A majority of Christians are white conservative racists. The fact that they are no longer the majority is of great concern to racist conservative white Christians. To them this is the end of the world and the reason so many of them turned to Trump and white supremacist groups.

They know they are pieces of shit, and that the world knows... and that their time is coming.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

A majority of Christians are white conservative racists. The fact that they are no longer the majority is of great concern to racist conservative white Christians. To them this is the end of the world and the reason so many of them turned to Trump and white supremacist groups.

They know they are pieces of shit, and that the world knows... and that their time is coming.

I wouldn't go quite that far, but Underseer did nail it.

 

[lpetrich]

White Evangelicals Are on the Decline (and They Completely Deserve It) – Friendly Atheist noting PRRI: America’s Changing Religious Identity

A decade or so, white evangelicals could easily have patted themselves on the back about how it is those wimpy liberal churches that are declining, and how they are standing firm in their convictions and not declining. But now they also are declining.

In 2016, the percentage of US adults who are unaffiliated is 24%, and the breakdown by age is

• 18 - 29: 38%
• 30 - 49: 26%
• 50 - 64: 18%
• 65 + : 12%

Breakdowns by age in previous years show that the fraction of unaffiliated in each generation stays roughly constant over time.

By comparison, not only white Catholics and white mainline Protestants, but also white evangelical Protestants, are declining at similar rates over the generations.

Looking at past years, we have these numbers: 1976: 7%, 1980: 7%, 1984: 7%, 1988: 8%, 1992: 9%, 1996: 12%, 2000: 14%, 2004: 14%, 2008: 17%, 2012: 20%, 2016: 24%.

The unaffiliated people label themselves as follows:

• Atheist: 14%
• Agnostic: 13%
• Secular person: 58%
• Religious person: 16%

Younger unaffiliated Americans are only somewhat more likely than unaffiliated seniors to identify as atheist or agnostic (31% vs. 24%, respectively), while unaffiliated seniors are twice as likely as younger unaffiliated Americans to identify as a religious person (20% vs. 10%, respectively). A majority of unaffiliated young adults and seniors say they are secular (59% vs. 56%, respectively).

Looking at LGBT Americans, they are 46% unaffiliated, with this mainly at the expense of white evangelical Protestantism, and to a lesser degree, white mainline Protestantism and white Catholicism. More LGBT people believe in alternative religions, but not much more.

There is a broadening gap in politics.

In 2006, 9% of Democrats were unaffiliated and 17% of them were evangelicals, and 4% of Republicans were unaffiliated and 37% of them were evangelicals.

In 2016, the numbers became D 26%, 8%, R 11%, 35%.
For young ones, D 40%, 3%, R 19%, 24%
For old ones, D 15%, 15%, R 6%, 42%

 

[iolo]

I wish more of our people stood up to our mental diseases!

You mean like alcoholism or excessive vowelishness? jk (after dismal elswhere no saints though)

Alcoholism is fine: our problems are toryism and willed ignorance. Don't understand the last bit.