Losing my religion
Washington Post
Washington post wrote an article saying that 15 percent of Americans have no religion.
The survey reflects a key question that demographers, sociologists and political scientists have been asking in recent years: Who makes up this growing group of evangelicals? Forty-four percent of America’s 77 million Christian adults say they are born again or evangelical. Meanwhile, 18 percent of Catholics also chose that label, as did 40 percent of mainline Christians.
“If people call themselves ‘evangelical,’ it doesn’t tell you as much as you think it tells you about what kind of church they go to,” Silk said. “It deepens the conundrum about who evangelicals are.”
Who are you?
That’s quite surprising, since I thought it was much higher than that. It was noted that terms people call themselves are being more and more vague. People no longer want to be called protestant, but rather evangelical. Even vaguer still, non-denominational. And the number of non-religious or irreligious is up as well.
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