[Thor]

Originally Posted by T@T

"America is a less Christian nation than it was 20 years ago, and Christianity is not losing out to other religions, but primarily to a rejection of religion altogether, a survey published Monday found.
75 percent call themselves Christian, down from 86 percent in 1990"

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayof...ian/index.html

Their still at 75%
Strange a country with that many "so-called" god loving people can be so murderous in nature toward each other.

This survey was really interesting, especially that in all states the one growing movement was non religious.

A graphical map for you to examine the results:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religio...h-survey_N.htm

The 2001 results:

http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/new...gion/flash.htm

What is interesting:

Minorities : Immigrants, especially from latin and poorer countries are much more likely to be very religious.

Whack-a-mole religion. In America much of the religious America represents people who have switched religious affiliation.

The one interesting thing is that the entire group of Nordic nations in 1-2 generations went from religious, to irreligious in that short period. Can that happen in the US? I don't think so, but with Obama at least we are moving away from theocracy and absolutism to a more moderate and scientific way of thinking.

What is clear is that

the study found that the numbers of Americans with no religion rose in every state.

" No other religious bloc has kept such a pace in every state," the study's authors said.

Americans abandoning religion as number of non-believers climbs to 15 per cent


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-per-cent.html

Is this a pushback to Bush and the Evangelicals?? Is this a awakening of the atheist movement finally showing results?

Whatever is going on, its clear, the evangelical movement is facing a pushback to their dogma.

Wheter it be Prop 8, presidential candidates denying evolution, anti abortion, anti stem cells, etc..

Its clear that to those outside that spectrum realize, not only will gay marriage be looked upon like we view now womens voter rights, interracial marriage, etc.. But that clearly our future will see these anti-movements as backward and barbaric ideals based on a book that people pick and choose what parts to believe and agree with.