Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Today as you wake and look out, you might indeed conclude that the landscape you see is exactly the same as yesterday. It is not. You have woken up in a new world, an alien landscape. This is a place that was once peopled by tens of millions who previously identified with organised religion. Something … Read more
Latest pew data confirms that Christianity in the US is rapidly declining. Latest numbers reveal a drop to 65%.
Over the last three decades a new demographic has emerged – the nones. Why are people who associate with being not religious increasing?
The release of the 2018 General Social Survey (GSS) data reveals that the largest religious demographic is now the Nones at 23.1%.
Pew has just published further insights into the rise of the religiously unaffiliated in the US. Moving beyond the data observation that that there is a growing demographic of “nones” (not religious), then picked a randomly selected group of people who had previously identified as a none and asked them why they chose to not … Read more
Normally, once per week, I write up a posting that spotlights my personal selection of the top three items of religiously inspired weirdness that happened during the past seven days. Today however, for rather obvious reasons, I’m looking back over the past calendar year to pick out the top three items of religious weirdness. Rather … Read more