Reading America’s Atheists, Believe it or not, the fact that surprised me wasn’t that 30 million Americans claimed "no religion," but rather that Catholicism is America’s largest Christian denomination. Growing up Catholic, I never felt like I was in the majority (except when we lived in Spain,) and I’m still surprised to find out that […]
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More Americans believe in the devil than in Darwin! As someone who definitely believes in Darwin and evolution and thinks the devil doesn’t exist, at least as depicted by most religions, that fact is outstanding! Here’s the survey data: 82% believe in God 62% believe in hell and the devil (It wasn’t clear if this
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A BBC article says that atheism, or maybe agnosticism, is on the rise in the US. Surprisingly they gave 9/11 as a reason people maybe more likely to be agnostic since they see terrible acts committed "for my God." They pointed at recent bestsellers as evidence of this growing atheism: God Is Not Great: How
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If you are like most people, you picked the homosexual one, but let us know below! As James Joyner writes: A recent Gallup poll reveals that Americans are much more likely to elect a black man or a woman president than a Mormon or an old man. More interestingly, they’d rather be governed by a
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I just discovered that "three of the four greatest American philanthropists have been atheists or agnostics" thanks to the New York Times. They are Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Andrew Carnegie. John D. Rockefeller is the fourth and he’s the exception. This struck me for two reasons. One, I have Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion
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Since I just recently blogged about atheists, this article in the Rice Sallyport caught my eye: Natural Scientists Are Less Likely to Believe in God than Are Social Scientists. According to this study, 38% of natural scientists and 31% of social scientists do not believe in God. All those surveyed worked at universities, as far
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It looks like Americans would rather you believe in a god or gods they don’t believe in than have you believe in no god at all. Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority, according to new U of M study : News Releases: UMNnews: U of M.. From a telephone sampling of more than 2,000
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