alt.education

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:41:00 -0800 (PST), Wide Eyed in
Wonder spake thusly:


>On Feb 25, 4:19 pm, Wide Eyed in Wonder wrote:
>
>> To the amazement of those doing the study (which I guess were looking
>> for less religion), a new study by Pew Research has found America is
>> "still" greatly religious.
>>
>> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-religion26feb26,...http://religions.pewforum.org/
>>
>> Here's some stats from the survey..
>>
>> Christian - 78.4 %
>> Jewish - 1.7%
>> Buddhists - 0.7%
>> Muslim - 0.6%
>> Hindu - 0.4%
>> New Age - 0.4%
>> Atheist - 1.4%
>> Agnostic - 2.4%
>>
>> One of the interesting things I saw was concerning Evangelicals.
>> According to many on the political left, Evangelicals are a small,
>> extremist group within Christianity that holds no power. In fact,
>> this survey shows that Evangelicals are the LARGEST religious group in
>> America, beating even Catholics. Indeed, Evangelicals (at 26.3%) were
>> much larger than the mainline Protestant denominations in the country
>> (18.1 percent)
>>
>> Another thing of interest has to do with the charge that Christians
>> are brainwashed. This study shows that 4 in 10 adults have recently
>> changed their religious affiliation, yet they remain CHRISTIAN. So,
>> they are thinking on their own and rejecting those in authority over
>> them, while reasoning that the faith, itself, is sound. Indeed, the
>> educational distribution page shows that 50 percent of the religious
>> had some college (37 percent being college graduates or more). So,
>> they had great reasoning ability.
>>
>> Further, there were more Pentecostals (at 3.4% of Americans) than
>> mainline Lutherans (2.8%), Presbyterians (2.7%), Anglicans (1.7%),
>> mainline Bapists (1.9%), and other groups.
>>
>> The AGE of the religious is ALSO very interesting. The incorrect myth
>> has been that people choose to follow God either as uneducated youths
>> or the extreme elderly. This study shows this to be false. The
>> religious in the 30-49 age group (39%) were larger than the SUM of
>> both the youth group (20%) and the elderly (16%). So, the largest
>> group were the middle age, educated, family-leading, career providing,
>> American citizens.
>>
>> The GENDER info provided equally interesting information. Contrary to
>> the belief that Evangelicals and Protestants were oppressive to women,
>> this survey find that women were, by far, the majority gender in these
>> denominations.
>>
>> The income section show that 48 percent of the religious came from
>> those that made over 50 thousand dollars, dismissing the belief that
>> this was a religious crutch for those in need. Further, it could show
>> that God provides for those that trust in Him.
>>
>> As I said...VERY interesting findings that it will take the other side
>> a LOT of spinning to hide.
>>
>> Kenneth Clifton
>> christiansuperhero.com
>
>One more note, upon further research, has to do with DIVORCE. It has
>been the assumption that divorce is as prominent in Evangelical
>churches as any other group. Yet, this survey finds that ONLY 13
>PERCENT of Evangelicals were divorced, compared to a national average
>that says 1 in 2 marriages fail.
>
>Kenneth Clifton
>christiansuperhero.com

The "church" doesn't matter. However, what is true,
is that in families that read the Bible together regularly
and pray together regularly, the divorce rate the last
time I checked, was about 2%.

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