The United States is de-Christianizing

[AMbomb]

The percentage of the population that is Christian dropped from 86.2 in 1990 to 76.5 in 2001. The reason for this is that the population of the United States is getting more educated. Religion is the primitive man's science. It's how people explained things before there was science. As people get more educated, more and more realize the superiority of science to religion as a source of explanations.

[jcr4runner]

Protestant denominations make up the majority at 52 percent, followed by Roman Catholics (24%), Mormon (1%), Jewish (1%), Muslim (1%), other (10%), and none (variously estimated at from 10% to 15%). There is no group that comes close to rivaling Christianity as the majority.

About 46 percent of American adults attend church at least once a week compared with 14 percent of adults in Great Britain, 8 percent in France, and 7 percent in Sweden. Moreover, 58 percent of Americans say that they often think about the meaning and purpose of life, compared with 25 percent of the British, 26 percent of the Japanese, and 31 percent of West Germans.

Our history shows us that America is an incurably religious culture. The numbers of Christians are growing exponentially both in the United States and abroad. Further, the numbers of conservative evangelicals are growing in the face of declining numbers in liberalized churches.

At the beginning of the 20th century, 80 percent of the world's Christians were in the Americas and Europe. Now only 40 percent, because more and more of the new Christians are in Asia and Africa. We have today a country in Africa, Zambia, that is Christian Reconstructionist. We don't hear these things because we feel that we are the center of the world and believe that what we are and what we do is all important. But things are happening very dramatically.

There are now more Christians in Africa than Muslims. Islam is now second to Christianity in the world. And recent reports estimate that by 2025, that gap will widen even further, making Christianity by far the world's largest religion.

The media isn't given to reporting on Christian successes or Christian martyrdoms. They act as though Christianity is dead and we are too stupid to lie down and be buried. But the reality is much different. That's why there is so much animosity to what we are doing. They know it is catching on. When the President and Vice President of a country in Africa have affirmed that they believe that God's law should rule the country, that is major news, but the media won't touch it.

[jcr4runner]

The percentage of the population that is Christian dropped from 86.2 in 1990 to 76.5 in 2001. The reason for this is that the population of the United States is getting more educated. Religion is the primitive man's science. It's how people explained things before there was science. As people get more educated, more and more realize the superiority of science to religion as a source of explanations.

Nope. Wrong again, AmBomb. If the lies you post weren't so ridiculously wrong in the extreme, someone might actually take you seriously.

All major polls show a percentage to from about 85 percent to 90 percent.

This census information "factoid" is posted on the atheist websites, but apparently skeptics do not have the critical thinking skills to interpret these statistics correctly.

This is what the U.S. Census Bureau writes:

Subjective rather than objective standards of religious identification were tapped by the surveys.

Table 69 of the U.S. Census is "Self-Described Religious Identification of Adult Population between 1990 and 2001.

If you look at most of the denominations, they show steady growth. However, several categories such as "Protestant," "Christian," "Non-denominational," "Born-again," "Evangelical," there are wild fluctutations. The Census Bureau states:

Because of the subjective nature of replies to open-ended question, these categories are the most unstable as they do not refer to clearly identifiable denominations as much as underlying feelings about religion. Thus they may be the most subject to fluctuation over time.

The Census states that these figures are not objective indicators. Depending on the poll you choose, about 85 to 90 percent of the total population identifies itself as Christian. There are no polls I've seen that indicate anything lower than that.

http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_171.html

In February and March 2002 the Pew Research Council conducted a survey of 2,002 adults. Questions about religious preference were included. The results are below:

Religious Preference: Christian
% June 1996: 84
% March 2001: 82
% March 2002: 82

Even as the U.S. population has increased dramatically, Christianity has kept step within the plus or minus 2 or 3 percentage point error inherent in every poll.

All polls show about 85 percent to 90 percent Christian.

See: http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_171.html

So much for the mathematical abilities of atheists!

That's not surprising since God himself proclaims atheists to be stupid.

"The fool hath said in his own heart, there is no God." - Psalms 14:1