Tag: Religion

Three-Quarters of Americans Are Religious

Buck Banks

76%

Americans’ religious preferences have generally held steady in the past five years, after a sharp increase in the percentage of Americans with no religious affiliation and concurrent declines in Protestant and Catholic identification over the prior two decades, according to Gallup. In 2024, 45% of Americans identified as Protestant or nondenominational Christian, 21% as Catholic and 10% as another religion, with 22% not identifying with any religion. Those figures are each within one percentage point of their 2018-2020 levels.

Majority: Religion Losing Influence on American Life

Buck Banks

80%

A new Pew Research Center survey “finds that 80% of U.S. adults say religion’s role in American life is shrinking – a percentage that’s as high as it’s ever been in our surveys. … Most Americans who say religion’s influence is shrinking are not happy about it. Overall, 49% of U.S. adults say both that religion is losing influence and that this is a bad thing. An additional 8% of U.S. adults think religion’s influence is growing and that this is a good thing.”

How to Improve Your LDS-dar, In One Easy Lesson

Trish
A photo of the Strack family, whose parents and three youngest members were recently deceased. The photo was published in the Deseret News.
A photo of the Strack family, whose parents and three youngest members were recently deceased. The photo was published in the Deseret News.

Mitt Romney’s thinking of running for president again. That means it’s time for the mainstream media to sweep the truth about how zingy Mormonism is under the rug.

Here’s how you know “legitimate journalists” are talking about Mormons.

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The Insanity of the Sanctity of Lifers

Trish

This should never happen to another woman. Religion and medicine should never mix.

— A doctor in Ireland calling for an investigation into the death of a pregnant woman who was denied an abortion even though her life was at risk. Her husband said they were told, “This is a Catholic country,” and that doctors let his wife die in agony in the hospital as they watched for three days because they thought they could detect a fetal heartbeat.